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HOLT  WAR, 

UADS  BY 

J8HADDAI  UPON  DIABOLUS, 

FOR  THE  REGAINING  OB  THE 

METROPOLIS  OF  THE  WORLD ; 

©R,  THE  LOSING  AND  TAKING  AGAIN  OF  THB 

TOWN  OF  MANSOUL. 

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By  JOHN  BUNYAN, 

AUTHOR    OF   THE    PILGRIM'S   PROGRESS. 

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I  have  t»ed  thnilitudes.    H<*>  xii»  \9. 


BOSTON* 

'P.$BLI9HB1>    BY    19*  I  AH    THOMAS,    JAN. 

H*-&  W.  H.  Mann,  Printer^  Dtdham.- 

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TO  THE  READER. 


*TIS  strange  to  me,  that  they  that  love  to  uM 
Things  done  of  old,  yea,  and  that  do  excel 
Then-  equals  in  historiology, 
Speak  not  of  Mansoul's  wars,  hut  let  them  lie 
Dead,  like  old  fables,  or  such  worthless  things, 
That  to  the  reader  no  advantage  brings ; 
"When  men,  let  them  make  what  they  will  their  own 
'Till  they  know  this,  are  to  t : 

Of  stories  I  well  know  there's  divei  i 
Some  foreign,  some  domestic  ;  and  reports 

ancy  liads the  writers : 
(By  books  a  man  may  guess  at  the  inditers:) 

Some  will  again  of  that  which  never  was 
Nor  will  be,  feign  (and  that  without  a  cause) 
Such  matter,  raise  such  mountains,  tell  such  things, 
Of  nun,  of  laws,  of  countries,  and  of  kings. 
And  in  their  story  seem  to  be  so  sage, 
And  with  such  gravity  clothe  ev'ry  page, 
That  though  their  frontispiece  says  all  is  vain, 
Y<  t  to  th<  ir  way  disciples  they  obtain. 
But,  readers," I  have  somewhat  else  to  do, 
ith  vain  stories  thus  to  trouble  you. 
'  say,  some  men  do  know  so  well, 
They  can  wuh  tears  and  joy  the  story  tell. 
The  town  of  Mansoul  ii  well  known  to  many, 
roubles  doubted  of  by  any 
That  are  acquainted  with  those  histories 
That  mansoul  and  her  wars  anatomise. 

Then  lend  thine  ear  to  what  I  do  relate, 
Touching  the  town  of  Mansoul  and  her  state; 
How  she  was  lost,  took  captive,  made  a  slave, 
And  how  against  him  set,  that  should  hcr  save. 
Yea,  how  by  fa  did  oppose 

Her  Lord,  and  with  his"  enemy  did  close. 
For  they  are  true,  he  that  will  them  deny, 
Must  needs  the  best  of  records  vilify. 
For  ray  part,  I  myself  was  at  the  town, 
Both  when  'twas  » t  up,  and  when  pulling  down  ; 
I  saw  Diabolus  in  liis  possession, 
Ari  Mansoul  also  under  his  oppression, 

re  when  she  ov.n'd  him  for  Lord, 
Ana  to  hi  r,  did  submit  with  one  accord. 

upon  tilings  divine, 
And  Ith  as  doth  a  swine  : 

rself  unto  her  arras, 
her  Emanuel,  despised  his  charms, 
T"h    i  :  rejoice  t0  see 

Di  bo]  ion!  so  agree. 

L •:»  no  man  th<  ri  count  me  a  fable -maker, 
il  a  par  taker 
Of  !•".•  if  J*  rision  :  new, 

i  i  true. 
down 
9/  troops,  by  thousai^d*,  to  besiege  the  town. 


True  Christiaju. 


The  script  urek. 


Met  counsel*. 


iy  TO  THE  READER. 

I  saw  the  Captains,  heard  the  trumpets  sound, 
And  how  his  forces  covered  nil  the  ground. 
Yea,  how  they  set  themselves  in  hattlevray, 
I  shall  remember  to  my  dying  day. 

1  saw  the  colours  waving  in  the  wind , 
And  they  within  to  mischief  how  combined, 
To  ruin  Mansoul,  and  to  make  away 

Her  Primum  Mobile  without  delay.  Her  sou!. 

I  saw  the  mounts  cast  up  against  the  towu, 
And  how  the  slings  were  placed  to  "beat  it  down. 
i  beard  the  stones  fly  whizzing  by  mine  ears, 
£What  longer  kept  in  mini  than  got  in  fears,) 
I  heard  them  fall,  and  saw  what  work  they  made. 
And  how  old  Mars  did  cover  with  h;s  shade 

The  f:\ce  of  Mansoul:  And  I  heard  her  cry,  Ueojfay 

"Woe-worth  the  day  in  dying  I  shall  die. 

I  saw  the  battering  rams,  and  how  they  play'd 
To  beat  down  Ear»gate,  and  I  was  afraid, 
Vot  only  Ear-gate,  but  the  very  town 
Would  by  those  bettering  rams  be  beaten  down. 

I  saw  the  fights,  and  heard  the  Captain  shout; 
And  in  each  battle  saw  who  faced  about ; 

I  saw  who  woundt  d  were,  and  who  were  slain ;  LuJ?t  - 

And  who.  when  dead,  would  come  to  life  again* 
I  heard  the  cries  cf  those  that  wounded  were 
OWhere  others  fought  like  men  bereft  of  fear,) 
And  -while  the  cry,  kill,  kill,  was  in  mine  ears^ 
The  gutters  ran,  not  so  with  blood  as  tears. 
Indeed  the  Captains  did  not  always  fight, 
But  then  they  would  molest  us  day  and  night; 
Their  cry,  up,  fall  on,  let  us  take  the  town, 
Kept  us  from  sleeping,  or  from  lying  down. 
I  was  there  when  the  gates  were  broken  ope\ 
And  saw,  how  Mansoul  then  was  stript  of  hope. 
I  saw  the  Captains  march  into  the  town, 
JIow  they  there  fought,  and  did  their  foes  cut  down'. 

I  hoard  the  Prince  bid  Boanerges  go 
Up  to  the  castle,  and  there  seize  bis  foe ; 
And  saw  liim  and  his  fellows  bring  hen  down, 
In  chains  of  great  contempt  quite  through  the  town^ 
'  N  1  saw  Emanuel  when  he  possest 

His  town  of  Mansoul,  and  how  greatly  blest 
A  town,  his  gallant  town  of  Mansoul  was, 
"When  she  received  his  pardons,  loved  his  laws* 
When  the  Diabolonians  were  caught, 
When  try'd  and  when  to  execution  brought, 
:  fhen  I  was  there ;  yea,  I  was  standing  by, 
When  Manfoul  did  the  rebel  crucify. 

I  also  saw  Maasoul  clad  all  in  whiie, 
And heard  her  Priuce  cail  h^r  his  heart's  delist, 
I  raw  him  put  upon  her  chains  of  gold, 
And  rings  and  bracelets  goodly  to  behold. 

What  shall  I  sav,  I  heard  the.people's  cry. 
And  saw  the  Prince  wipe  tears  from  Maiisoui's  eye, 
T  heard  the  groans,  and  saw  the  joy  of  many  ; 

you  of  all,  I  neither  will,  nor  can  I. 
But  by  what  here  I  say,  you  well  may  see. 
That  Mansoufs  matchless  wars  no  fables  be. 
Mansoul !  the  desire  of  both  princes  was, 
©oe  keep  his  gain  would,  t'other  gain  liio  loss ; 
jaiflboius  would  cry  the  town  is  mine, 
Rhianucl  would  plead  a  right  divine 
Unto  his  Mansoul ;  then  to  blows  they  go,       ^ 
An'!  Mansoul  cries,  'these  wars  will  me  undo, 

Mansoul !  her  wars  seenvd  endless  in  her  eyes, 
She's  lost  bv  one, becomes  another's  prize; 
And  h*>  again  that  iost  her  last  would  swear* 
Have  her~I  will,  or  her  in  pieces  tear. 
MimseuU  »t  was  the  very  seat  of  vw, 


■TO  THE  READER.  v 

Wherefore  her  troubles  greater  were  by  far, 

Than  onlj  where  the  nois.  of  war  is  heard, 

Or  vi  here  the  shaking  of  u  sword  is  feared, 

Or  c   iy  where  small  sivirmishts  are  fought, 

Or  where  die  fancy  hghteth  with  a  thought. 
She  saw  thv.  swords  of  lighting  men  made  red, 

And  heard  the  cries  of  those  with  them  woundea; 

Musi  not  her  frights  then  be  much  more  bj  far 

Than  theirs  that  to  such  doings  stranger*  are? 

Or  theirs  that  hear  the  beating  of  a  drum, 

But  irot  made  bly  for  fear  from  house  and  home. 
Man  soul,  not  only  heard  the  trumpets  sound, 

But  saw  ner  gallants  gasping  on  the  ground. 

Wherefore  w  v  must  not  think  that  sue  cuuld  rest 

With  them,  whose  greatest  earnest  is  but  jtst; 

Or  where  the  blustermg  threateningjof  great  wars 

Do  a.d  in  parleys,  or  in  wondering  jar3. 

.1,  her  mighty  wars  they  did  portend 

Her  we'd  or  woe,  and  that  world*  without  end. 

Wjherefore  she  must  be  more  conceAied  that  the* 

Whose  i  an  begin,  and  end  the  selfsame  day. 

Or  where  none  other  harm  doth  come  to  him 

That  is  engaged  hut  loss  of  life  or  limb, 

As  all  must  needs  confess  that  now  do  dwell 

In  universe,  and  can  this  story  tell. 

Count  me  not  then  with  them  that  to  amaze 

The  people,  set  them  on  the  stars  to  gaze, 

InsinuuUng  with  much  confidence, 

That  each  of  them  is  now  the  residence 

Of  some  brave  creatures ;  yea,  a  world  they  will 

Have  in  each  star,  though  it  be  past  their  skill 

To  make  it  manifest  to  am 

That  r  ason  Lath,  or  tell  ids  lingers  ear- 
But  I  have  too  long  held  thee  in  the  porch, 

And  kept  thee  from  the  sunshine  with  a  torch. 

Well,  now  go  forward ;  step  within  the  door, 

And  there  behold  five  hundred  tunes  much  more 

Of  all  sorts  or  Mich  inward  rarities 

As  please  the  rnind  will,  and  will  feed  the  eyes 

With  those,  which,  if  a  Christian,  thou  wilt  see 

Not  small,  but  things  of  gr<  at(  st  moment  be. 
Nor  do  thou  go  to  work  without  m>  key, 

(In  mysteries  men  soon  d  j  lose  their  way) 

And  also  turn  it  right,  if  thou  wouldst  know 

My  riddle,  and  wouldst  with  my  htifer  blow ; 

It  lies  there  hi  the  window,  fare  thee  well,  The  MHrgcni- 

My  next  may  be  to  ring  thy  passing  bell. 

JOHN  BUKYAN. 


1  * 


ADVERTISE3IENT  TO  THE  READER. 


SOME  say  the  Pilgrim's  progress  is  not  mine. 
Insinuating  as  if  I  would  shine 
In  name  and  fame  by  the  worth  of  another, 
'  .Like  some  made  rich  by  robbing  of  their  brother; 
Or  that  so  fond  I  am  of  being  sire, 
I'll  father  bastards  ;  or,  if  need  require, 
I'll  tell  a  lie  in  print  to  get  applause. 
I  scorn  it,  John  such  dirt  heap  never  w**, 
Since  God  converted  him.     I.-et  this  suffice 
To  shew  why  I  my  pilgrim  patronize. 

It  came  from  mine  own  heart,  so  to  my  head. 
And  thence  into  my  fingers  trickled  ; 
Then  to  my  pen,  from  whence  immediately 
On  paper  I  did  scribble  it  daintily. 

Manner  and  matter  too  was  all  my  own, 
Nor  was  it  unto  any  mortal  known, 
'Till  I  had  done  it.     iNor  did  any  then 
By  books,  by  wits,  by  tongues,  or  hand,  or  pen, 
Add  five  words  to  it,  or  wrote  half  a  line, 
Therefore,  the  whole,  and  ev'ry  whit,  is  mine. 

Also  for  this  thine  eye  is  now  upon, 
The  matter  in  this  manner  came  from  none, 
But  the  same  heart,  and  head,  fingers  and  pen, 
As  did  the  other.     Witness  all  good  men  ; 
For  none  in  all  the  world,  without  a  'lie, 
Can  say  that  this  is  mine,  excepting  I. 

I  write  not  this  of  any  ostentation, 
Nor  'cause  I  seek  of  men  their  commendation, 
I  do  it  to  keep  them  from  such  surmise, 
As  tempt  them  will  my  name  to  scandalize. 
Witness  my  name,  if  anagram'd  to  thee, 
The  letters  make,  Nu  hony  in  a  B. 

JOHN  BUNYAN, 


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R  E  L  A  T I ON 


OP   THE 


HOLY    WAR,  Jjjc. 


XN  my  travels,  as  I  walked  through  many  region* 
find  countries,  it  was  my  chance  to  happen  into  that 
famous  continent  of  Universe  ;  a  very  large  and  spa- 
cious country  it  is.  It  lieth  between  the  two  poles, 
and  just  amidst  the  four  points  of  the  heavens.  It  is 
a  place  well  watered,  and  richly  adorned  with  hills 
and  valleys,  bravely  situate;  and  for  the  most  part, 
at  least  where  I  was,  very  fruitful,  also  well  peop- 
led, and  a  very  sweet  air. 

The  people  are  not  a!!  of  one  complexion,  nor 
yet  of  one  language,  mode,  or  way  of  religion,  but 
differ  as  much  as,  'tis  said,  do  the  planets  themselves. 
Some  are  right,  and  some  are  wrong,  even  as  it  hap- 
peneth  to  he  in  lesser  regions. 

In  this  country,  as  I  said,  it  was  my  lot  to  travel, 
and  there  travel  I  did,  and  that  so  long  even  tiii  I 
learned  much  of  their  mother  tongue,  together  with 
the  customs    and   manners  of  them  among  whom  I 
was.     And  to  speak  truth,  I  was  much 
delighted  to  see  and  hear  many  things  A  natural 
which  I   sawr  and  heard  among  them  :  state  plea- 
Yen,  I  had,  to  be  sure,  even   lived  and  sing  to  the 
died  a  native   among   them,   so  I  was  flesh. 
taken   with  them  and  their  doings,  had 
not  my  master  sent  for  me  home  to  his  Christ, 
house,  there  to  do  business  for  him,  and 
,tg  oversee  business  done, 


§  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Now,  there  is  in  this  gallant  country  of  Universe. 

a  fair  and  delicate  town,  a  corporation, 
Man.  called  Mansoul :  a  (own  For  its  building 

so  curious,  for  its  situation  so  commodi- 
ous, for  its  privileges  so  advantageous,  I  mean  with 
reference  to  its  original,  that  1  may  say  of  it  as  was 
said  before  of  the  continent  ki  which  it  was  placed ; 
"There  is  not  its  equal  under  -he  whole  heaven. 
As  to  the  situation  of  thk  town,  it  lieth  just  be- 
tween   the   two   worlds,    and    the   first 
Scriptures    founder  and  builder  of  it,  so  far  as  by 
The  Al-       the   brsl  and  most  authentic  records  I 
mighty         can     ather,  was  one  Shaddai ;  and  he 
Gen.  I.  26.   buiit  it  for  his  own  delight.    He  made  it 

the  mirror  and  glory  of  all  that  he 
made,  even  the  top  piece  beyond  any  thing  else  that 
he  did  in  that  country.     Yea,  so  goodly  a  town  was 

Mansoul,  when  first  built,  that  it  is  said 
Created  by  some  the  gods  at  the  setting  up  there- 
angcls  of  came  down  to  see  it,  and  sung  for 

jo^v.  And  as  he  made  it  goodly  to  be- 
hold, so  also  mighty  to  have  dominion  over  all  the* 
country  round  about.  Yea  all  was  commanded  to 
acknowledge  Mansoul  for  their  metropolitan,  all 
was  enjoined  to  do  homage  to  it.  Ay,  4.he  town  it- 
self had  positive  commission  and  power  from  her 
king,  to  demand  service  of  all,  and  also  to  subdue 
any,  that  any  wise  deny  to  do  it. 

There  was  reared  up  in  the  midst  of  this  town,  a 
most  famous  and  stately  palace  ;  for  strength  it  might 

be  called  a  castle,  for  pleasantness^  pa- 
The  heart,  radise,  for  largeness  a  place  so  copious 
Eccl.  3.  11.  as  to  contain  all  ihe  world.     This  place 

the  king  of  Shaddai  intended  but  for 
himself  alone,  and  not.  another  with  him;  partly  be- 
cause of  his  own  delights,  and  partly  because  he 
would  not  that  the  terror  of  strangers  should  be  upon 
the  town.  This  place  Shaddai  made  also  a  garri- 
son of,  but  committed  the  keeping  of  it  only  to  the 
men  of  the  town. 

The  wall  of  the  town  was  well  built, 
The  pow*     yea  so  fast  snd  firm  was  it  knit  and  coat- 


'THE  HOLY  WAR.  $ 

pact  together,  that  had  it  not,  been  for  crsofilie 
the  townsmen  themselves,    they   could  soul. 
not  have  been  shaken  or  broken  for  ever. 

For  here  lay  the  excellent  wisdom  of 
him  that  builded  Mansoul,  that  the  walls  The  body. 
could  never  be  broken   down,   nor  hurt 
by  the  most   mighty  adverse   potentate,  unless   the 
townsmen  gave  consent  thereto. 

This  famous  town  of  Ma.roul  had  five  gates,  in 
at   which  to  come,  out  at  which  to  go,  and  these 
were  made  likewise  answerable  to  the  walls,  to  wit, 
impregnable  ;  and  such  as  could  never  be  opened 
nor  forced-,  but  by  the  will  and  leave  of 
those  within.     The  name  of  the  gates  The  five 
were  these.  Ear-gate,  Eye-gate,  Mouth-  senses 
gate,  Nose-gate,  and  Feel-gate.     Other 
things    there  were    that    belonged    to  the    town  of 
nsoul,  which  if  you  adjoin  to  these  will  yet  give 
farther    demonstration    to   all,   of    the    glory    and 
strength  of  the  place.     It  had  always  a  sufficiency 
of  provision  within  its  walls  ;  it  had  the 
best,   most   wholesome,    and  excellent  The  slate  qf 
laws  that  then  was  extant  in  the  world.  Man  soul 
There  was  not  a  rascal,  rogue,  or  trai-  at  first. 
terous person  then  within  its  walls;  they 
were  all  true  men,  and  fost  joined  together,  and  this 
you  know  is  a  great   matter.     And  to  all  these,  it 
w;.s  always  (so   long  as  it  had  the  goodness  to  keep 
true  to  Shaddai  the  King)  his  countenance,  his  pro- 
tection, and  it  was  his  delight,  &c. 

Well,  upon  a  time  there  was  one  Di- 
abolus,  a  mighty  giant,  made  an  assault  The  DexiL 
upon  this  famous  town  of  Mansoul,  to 
take  it,  and  make  it  his  own  habitation. 
This  giant  was  king  of  the  Bl  a-.U  s  and  Sinners, 
Negroes,  and  a  most  raving  prinoe   he  the  fallen 
was.     We  will,  if  you  please,  £rst  dis-  angels. 
course  of  the  original  of  this   Dkbolus, 
and  then  <*f  his  taking  of  this  famous  town  of  Maft- 


SOiJ 


This  Diabolus  is  indeed  a  great  and 
nighty  priiicea  and  yet  both  poor  and  The  origi- 


10  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

nalof  Di-     beggarly.     As  to  his  original,  be  was  at 
abolus.  first  one  of  the  servants  of  King  Shaddai, 

made,  and  taken,  and  put  by  him  into  a 
most  high  and  mighty  place,  yea,  was  put  into  snch 
principalities  as  belonged  to  the  best  of  his  territo- 
ries and  dominions.  This  Diabolus  was 
ha.  14.  12.  made  Son  of  the  Morning,  and  a  brave 
place  he  had  of  it ;  it  brought  him  much 
glory,  and  gave  him  much  brightness,  an  incoin* 
that  might  have  contented  his  Luciferian  heart,  had 
it  not  been  insatiable,  and  enlarged  as  hell  itself. 

Well,  he  seeing  himself  thus  exalted  to  greatness 
and  honour,  and  raging  in  his  mind  for  higher  state 
fcnd  degree,  what  doth  he  but  begkis  to  think  with 
himself  how  he  might  be  set  up  as  Lord 
2  Pet.  2.  4.  over  all,  and  have  the  sole  power  under 
Jude  6.  Shaddai.  (Now,  that  did  the  King  re- 
serve for  his  Son,  yea,  and  had  already 
bestowed  it  upon  him)  wherefore  he  first  consults 
with  himself  what  had  best  to  be  done,  and  then 
breaks  his  mind  to  some  other  of  his  companions,  to 
the  which  they  also  agreed.  So,  in  fine,  they  ca  mt 
to. this  issue,  that  they  shocVl  make  an  attempt  upon 
the  King's  son  to  destroy  hita,  that  the  inheritance 
might  be  theirs.  Well,  to  be  short,  the  treason,  as  I 
«a!:l,  was  concluded,  the  time  appointed,  the  word 
given,  the  rebels  rendezvoused,  and  the  assault,  at- 
tempted. Now  the  King  and  his  son  being  all,  and 
always  eye,  could  not  but  discern  all  passages  in  his 
dominions,  and  he  having  always  love  for  his  son  as 
for  himself,  could  not,  at  what  he  saw,  but  be  greatly 
provoked  and  offended  :  Wherefore  what  does  he, 
but  takes  them  in  the  very  nick,  and  the  first  trip 
that  they  made  toward  their  design,  convicts  them 
of  V  1   rebellion,  and   conspiracy 

now  attempted  to  put  in 
prad  casts  them  ahoget&e*  out  of  all  placa 

oft:  ferment;  this  done, 

he   '•>  mishes   them   the  into  (he 

horrible    pit,  ai  tnori 

to  expect  the  /our  from  his  hands,  but  to 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  |j 

abide  the  judgment  that  he  had  appointed,  and  that 
for  ever  and  ever. 

Now,  they  being  thus  cast  out  of  all  place  of  trust 
profit  and  honour,  and  also  knowing  that  they  had 
lost  their  Prince's  favour  for  ever,  being  banished 
his  court,  and  cast  down  to  the  horrible 
pit,  you  may  be  sure  they  would  now  1  Pet.  5  8. 
add  to  their  former  pride,  what  malice 
and  rage  against  Shaddai,  and  against  his  son,  they 
could.  Wherefore,  roving  and  raging  in  nr.!ch  fury 
from  place  to  place,  if  perhaps  they  might  find  some- 
thing that  was  the  King's  to  revenge  (by  spoiling 
of  that)  themselves  on  him.  At  last  they  happened 
into  this  spacious  country  of  Universe,  and  steered 
their  course  to  the  town  of  Mansoul :  and  conaider- 
ing  that,  that  town  was  one  of  the  chief  works  and 
deUghts  of  King  Shaddai ;  what  do  they,  but  after 
counsel  taken,  make  an  assault  upon  that;  I  say, 
they  knew  that  Mansoul  belonged  unto  Shaddai,  for 
they  were  there  when  he  built  it,  and  beautified  it 
for  himself.  So  when  they  had  found  the  place,  they 
shouted  horribly  for  joy,  and  roared  on  it  like  a  lion 
upon  the  prey ;  saying,  now  we  have  found  the 
prize,  and  how  to  be  revenged  on  King 
Shaddai  for  what  he  hath  done  to  U3.  A  Council 
So  they  sat  down  and  called  a  council  of  war  hdi 
of  war,  and  considered  with  themselves  byDivibolus 
what  ways  and  methods  they  had  best  and  his 
to  engage  in,  for  the  winning  to  them-  fellows  a- 
selves  this   famous    town  of  Mansoi-  the 

And  these  four  things  were  then  pro-  town         of 
pounded  to  be  considered  of.  -   Mansoul. 

First,  Whether  they  had  best  all  of 
them  to  shew   themselves  in  this  design  Proposals 
to  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Secondly,  Whether  they  had  best  to  go  and  sit 
down  against  Mansoul,  in  their  now  ragged  and 
beggarly  guise. 

Thirdly,  Whether  they  had  best  to  shew  to  Man- 
soul their  intentions,  and  what  design  they  came 
about,  or  whether  to  assault  it  with  words  and  ways 
Of  deceit. 


12  THE  HOIY  WAR. 

Fourthly,  Whether  they  had  not  best  by  sotne  of 
iheir  <  ompanions,  to  give  out  private  orders  to  fake 
the  advantage,  if  they  see  one  or  more  of  the  prii*- 
c'  i  townsmen,  to  shoot  them;  if  thereby  tbey 
»h  -ii  judge  their  cause  and  design  will  the  better  be 
promoted. 

It  was  answered  to  the  first  of  these  proposals  ia 
the  negative,  to  wit,  that  it  would  not  be 
To  the  first  best  that  all  should  shew  themselves  be- 
proposal,       fore  the  town,  because  the  appearance 
of  many  of  them  might  alarm  and  fright 
the  town  ;  whereas  a  few,  or  but  one  of  them,  wa« 
Hot  so  likely  to  do  it     And  to  enforce  this  advice  to 
take  place,  'twas  added  further,  that  if  Mansoul  wa# 
frighted,  he  would  take  the  alarm.     "It  is  impossi- 
ble, said  Diabolns,  (for  he  spake  now)  that  we  should 
take  the  town,  for  that  none  can  enter  into  it  with- 
out its  own  consent.     Let  therefore  but  few,  or  but 
one,  assault  Mansoul,  and  in  mine  opinion,  said  Di- 
abolus,  let  me  be  he."      Wherefore  to 
The  second  this  they   all    agreed,  and   then  to  the 
proposal.       second    proposal   they    came,    namely. 
Whether  they  bad  best  to  go  and    sit 
down  before  Mansoul,  in  their  now  ragged  and  beg- 
garly guise. 

To  which  it  was  answered  also  in  the  negative, 
ft  By  no  meatis  ;  and  that  because  (though  the  town 
of  Mansoul  had  been  made  to  know,  and  to  have  to 
do,  before  now,  with  things  that  are  invisible)  they 
did  never  as  yet  see  any  of  their  fellow  creatures  in 
do  sad  and  rascal  a  condition  as  they." 

And  that  was  the  advice  of  that  fierce 
jLleceto.  Alectio.  Then  said  Appollyon,  w  The 
Apollyon  advice  is  pertinent,  for  even  one  of  us 
appearing  to  them  as  we  are  now  ;  must 
Heeds  both  beget  and  multiply  such  thoughts  in  them, 
as  will  both  put  them  into  consternation  of  spirit,  and 
necessitate  them  to  put  themselves  upon  their  guard ; 
And  if  so,  said  he,  then  as  my  Lord  A  lee  to  said  but 
Uow,'t'i8  in  vain  for  us  to  think  of  taking  the  town.'3 
Then  said  that  mighty  giant  Btlze- 
Bdsckib,     hubp  "  The  advice  that  already  is  given 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  13 

ia  safe,  for  though  the  men  of  Mansoul  have  seen 
such  thinga  as  we  onee  were,  yet  hitherto  they  did 
never  behold  such  things  as  we  now  are  :  and 'tis  best* 
in  mine  opinion,  to  come  upon  them  in  such  a  guise, 
as  is  common  to,  and   most  familiar  among  them." 
To  this,  when  they  had  consented,  the  next  thing 
to  he  considered  was,  in  what  shape,  hue  or  guise, 
Diabohis  had  best   to  shew  himself,   when  he  went 
about  to  make  Mansoul    his    own.       Then*  one 
said  one  thing,  and  another  the  contrary  ; 
at  last  Lucifer  answered,  "  That  in  his  Lucifer. 
opinion  'twas    best   that   his   Lordship 
should  assume  the  body  of  some  of  those  creatures 
that   they  of  the  town  had  dominion   over.     For, 
quoth  he,  these  are  not  only  familiar  to  them,  but 
being  under  him,  they  will  never  imag- 
ine that  any  attempt  should  by  them  be  Gen,  3.  1. 
made  upon  the  town,  and  to  blind  all,  Ifcir. 20, 1,2 
let  him  assume  the  body  of  one  of  these 
beasts  that  Mansoul  deems  to  be  wiser  than  any  of 
the  rest."     This  advice  was  applauded  of  all,  so  it 
tvas  determined  that  the  giant  Diabolus  should  as- 
sume the  dragon,  for  that  he  was  one  in  those  days 
as  familiar  with  the  town  of  Mansoul,  as  now  is  the 
bird  with  the    boy.     For   nothing  that    was  in  its 
primitive  state  was  at  all  amazing  to  them.     Then 
they  proceeded  to  the  third  thing,  which  was, 

Thirdly,  Whether    they   had  best  to  The  third 
shew  their  intentions  or  their  design  of  proposal. 
his  coming  to  Mansoul,  or  no  ?  This  al- 
so was  answered  in    the  negative,   because  of  the 
weight   that   was  in  the  former  reasons,  to  wit,  for 
lhat    Mansoul   were  a  strong   people,  in  a   strong 
town,  whose  walls  and  gates  were  impregnable,  to 
say  nothing  of  their  castle,  nor  can  they  by  any 
means  be  won  but  by  their  own  consent.  "  Besides, 
(said  Legion,  for  he  gave  answer  io  this)  a  discov- 
ery of  our  intentions  may  make  them  send  to  their 
King  for  aid.   and  if  that  be  done,  1  know  quickly 
what  time  of  day  it  will  be  with  us.     Therefore  lei 
us  assault  them  in  ah   pretended  fairness.,  covering 
•four  intentions  with  all  manner  of  liesySaih 


14  IflJB  HOLY  AVAR. 

♦'.elusive  words,  feigning  of  all  things  (hat  will  ne\- 
cy  be,  and  promising  of  that  to  them  that  they  shall 
never  find;  this  is  the  way  to  win  Mansoul,  and  to 
make  them  of  themselves  to  open  the  gates  to  us : 
au  to  desire  us  too  to  come  into  them. 
"  And  the  reason  why  I  think  that  this  project 
will  do,  is  because  the  people  of  Mansoul  now  are 
every  one  simple  and  innocent ;  all  honest  and  true  : 
Nor  do  they  as  yet  know  what  it  is  to  be  assaulted 
with  fraud,  guile,  and  hypocrisy.  They  are  stran- 
gers to  lying  and  dissembling  lips,  wherefore  we 
cannot,  if  thus  we  be  disguised,  by  them  at  all  be 
discerned,  our  lies  shall  go  for  true  sayings,  and  our 
dissimulation  for  upright  dealings.  What  we  pro- 
mise them^thcy  will  in  that  believe  us,  especially 
if  in  all  oar  lies  and  feigned  words,  we  pretend 
great  love  to  them,  and  that  our  design  is  only  their 
advantage  and  honour."  Now  there  was  not  one  bit 
of  reply  against  this,  this  went  as  current  down  as 
doth  the  waters  down  a  steep  descent;  wherefore 
ihey  go  to  consider  of  the  last  proposal,  which  was, 
Fourthly,  Whether  they  had  not  best 
The  fourth  to  give  out  orders  to  some  of  their  com- 
proposal*  pany  to  shoot  some  one  or  more  of  the 
principle  of  the  townsmen,  if  they  judge 
that  their  cause  may  be  promoted  thereby. 

This  was  carried  in  the  affirmative,  and  the  man 
that  was  designed  by  this  stratagem  to 
Of  Captain  be  destroyed,  was  one  Mr.  Resistance, 
Resistance,  otherwise  called  Captain  Resistance, 
and  a  great  man  in  Mansoul  this  Cap- 
tain Resistance  was :  and  a  man  that  the  giant  Di- 
abolus  and  his  band  more  feared  than  they  feared 
the  whole  town  of  Mansoul  besides.  Now,  who 
should  be  the  actor  to  do  the  murder,  that  was  the 
next,  and  they  appointed  one  Tisiphane,  a  fury  of 
the  lake,  to  do  it. 

They  thus  having  ended,  their  coun- 
The  result     cil  of  war  rose  up,  and  assayed  to  do  as 
of      their     they  had  determined,  they  marched  to- 
CQunciL        wards  Mansoul,  hut  all  in  a  manner  in- 
visible, save  one  5  nor  did  he  approacl 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  15 

the  town  in  his  own  likeness,  but  under  the  shape, 
and  ihe  body  of  the  dragon.  *\ 

So  they  drew*  up  and  sat  down  before  Ear-gate, 
for  thai  wag  the  place  of  hearing  for  all  without  the 
town,  as  Eye-gate  was  the  place  of  perspective. 
So  as  I  Said,  he  came  up  with  his  train 
:o  the  gate,  and  Laid  his  ambuscade  for  Biabolus 
Captain  Resistance  within  bowshot  of  marches  up 
the  tdW;i.  This  done,  the  giant  ascend-  to  Ike  town 
ed  up  close  to  the  gale,  and  called  to  and  called 
the  £o\vn  of  Mansoo!  (or  a::1  ^  for     audi- 

)\i\  him  batons  Hl-f>ause.  nice. 
who  was  hi  mat* 

.  I  saift,  lie  being  come  up  to  Lae  ;  U 
(as   tire  manner  of  those  times  was)    sounded  his 
trumpet    for    audience;    at  which    the 
chief  (if  t  he   town  of  Mansoul   such   as  The  Lords 
my  Lor*,  innocent,  my  lord  Will  be  well*  of Mansoul 
my  Lord  Mayor,  Mr.  Recorder  an  J  Cap-  appeared 
tain  Resistance,  came  down  to  the  wall 
to  see    who  was  there    and   what  was    the  matter. 
And  my  Lord  Willbewell,  when  he  had  looked  over 
and  saw  who  stood  at  tbe  gate,  demanded  what  he 
was,  wherefore  he  was  come,  and  why  he  roused  the 
town  of  Mansoul  with  so  unusual  a  'sound. 

Diabolus,  then,   as  i^  he  had  been  a 
Iamb,  began  his  oration  and  said,  t;  Gen-  Biabolus' 

a  of  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul,  oration. 
I  am,  as  you  may  perceive,  no  far  dwel- 

rom  you,  but  near,  and  one  that  is  bound  by  the 
king  )Lo  do  you  my  homage,  and  what  service  1  can  : 
re,  that  I  may  be fait)  pelf  and  you, 

1  nave  somewhat  of  concern  to  impart  unto  you, 
^vnerefbre  ^v.ni.  me  your  audience,  and  hear  me  pa- 
ly. And  first,  I  will  assure  you,  it  is  not  myself 
&8t  you;  not  mine,  but  your  advantage  that  I  seek, 
by  what  I  now  do,  as  will  full  well  be  made  mani- 
fest, by  what  I  have  opened  my  mind  unto  you  : 
for  gentlemen,  I  am,  to  tell  you  the. truth,  come  to 
shew  you  how  you  may  have  an  ample 
deiiveranae,  from  a  bondage,  that  una-  Mansoul 
wares  to  yourself,  you  aie  captivated  and  engaged 


1§  THE  HOLY  WAE. 

enslaved  under."  At  th'«s  the  town  of  Mansoul  be- 
gao  to  prick  up  its  ears,  and  what  is  it,  pray  what  is 
it,  thought  they  ;  and  he  said,  "  I  have  something  to 
s;iy  to  you  concerning  your  king,  concerning  his 
laws,  and  also  touching  yourselves.  Touching  your 
Kinfig  I  know  he  is  great  and  potent,  hut  yet  all  that 
he  hafci)  said  to  you  is  neither  true,  nor  yet  for  your 
advantage.  1.  'Tis  not  true,  for  that  wherewith  he 
fiatb  hitherto  awed  you  shall  not  come  to  pass,  nor 
be  fulfilled,  though  you  do  the  .thing  that  he  hath 
forbidden.  But  if  there  was  danger,  what  a  slavery 
is  it  to  live  always  in  fear  of  the  greatest  punish- 
ments for  doing  so  small  and  trivial  a  thing  as  eat- 
ing of  a  little  fruit  is.  2.  Touching  his 
piabolua*  laws,  this  I  say  further,  they  are  both 
sithlility  •  unreasonable,  intricate,  and  intolerable  ; 
made  up  unreasonable,  as  was  hinted  before,  for 
of  lies,  that  the  punishment  is  not  proportioned 
to  the  offence.  There  is  great  difference 
and  disproportion  betwixt  the  life  and  an  apple,  yet 
the  one  must  go  for  the  other  by  the  law  of  your 
Shaddai.  But  it  is  also  intricate,  in  that  he  saith, 
first,  you  may  eat  of  all :  and  yet  after  forbids  the 
eating  of  one.  And  (hen,  in  the  last  place  it  must 
needs  be  intolerable  forasmuch  as  that  fruit  which 
you  are  forbidden  to  eat  of  (if  you  are  forbidden  any) 
is  that,  and  that  alone,  which  is  able,  by  your  eating, 
to  minister  to  you  a  good,  as  yet  unknown  by  you. 
This  is  manifest  by  the  very  name  of  the  tree;  it  is 
called  the  Tree  of  knowledge  of  Good  and  Evil; 
and  have  yon  that  knowledge  as  yet?  No,  no,  nor 
can  you  conceive  how  good,  how  pleasant,  and  how 
much  to  he  desired  to  make  one  wise  it  is,  so  long 
as  you  stand  by  your  king's  commandment.  Why 
should  you  he  holdcn  in  ignorance  and  blindness  ? 
Why  should  you  not  be  enlarged  by  knowledge  ami 
understanding?  And  now!  Oh  ye  inhabitants  oi 
the  famous  town  of  Mansoul,  to  speak  more  particu- 
larly to  yourselves,  you  are  not  a  free  people  ;  you 
are  kept  both  in  bondage  v,ni\  slavery,  and  that  by  a 
grievous  threat:  no  reason  being  annexed,  but  so 
will  I  have  it,  sa  it  shall  be.     And  h  it  not  griev 


*PHE  HOLY  WAR.  17 

•us  to  think  on  that  very  thing  you  are  forbidden  to 
do,  might  you  but  do  it,  would  yield  you  both  wis- 
dom and  honour;  for  then  your  eyes  will  be  open- 
ed, and  you  shall  be  as  gods.  Now,  since  this  is 
thus,  quoth  he,  can  you  be  kept  by  any  prince  in 
mote  slavery,  and  in  greater  bondage  than  you  are 
under  this  day  ?  You  are  made  underlings,  and  are 
wrapt  up  in  inconveniences,  as  I  have  well  made 
appear :  for  what  bondage  greater  than  to  be  kept 
in  blindness  :  will  not  reason  tell  you  that  it  is  bet- 
ter to  have  eyes  than  to  be  without  thera,  and  so  to 
be  at  liberfy,  to  be  better  than  to  be  shut  up  in  a 
dark  and  stinking  cave." 

And  just  now,  while  Diabolus  was  speaking  these 
words   to   Mansoul,    Tisiphane  shot  at 
Captain  Resistance  where  he  stood  on  Capt.  Resist* 
the  gate,   and  mortally   wounded   him  ance  slain. 
in  the  head,  so  that  he,  to  the  amaze- 
ment of  the  townsmen,  and  the  encouragement  of 
Diabolus,  fell  down  dead  quite  over  the  wall.    Now 
when  Captain  Resistance  was  dead  (and  he  was  the 
only  man  of  war  of  the   town)  poor  Mansoul  wa* 
wholly  left  naked  of  courage,  nor  had  she  now  any 
heart  to  resist. 

But  this  was  as  the  devil  would  have  it. 
Then  stood  forth  lie,  Mr.  Ill-pause,  Mr.  Ill-pause, 
that  Diabolus  brought  with  him,  who  his  speech  to 
was  his  orator,  and  he  addressed  the  town  of 
himself  to  speak  to  the  town  of  Man-  Mansoul. 
soul  :  the  tenor  of  whose  speech 
here  follows  :  "  Gentlemen,  quoth  Ill-pause,  it  h 
my  master's  happiness  that  ho  has  this  day  a  quiet 
and  teachable  auditory,  and  ii  is  hoped  by  us,  that 
we  shall  prevail  with  you  not  to  cast  off  good  ad- 
vice ,  My  master  has  a  very  great  love  for  you,  and 
although,  as  he  very  well  knows,  that  he  runs  the 
hazard  of  the  anger  of  King  Shaddai,  yet  love  to 
you  will  make  him  do  more  than  that,  nor  doih 
there  need  that  a  word  more  should  be  spoken  to 
confirm  for  truth  what  he  hath  said  ;  there  is  not  a 
word  but  carries  with  it  self-evidence  in  its  bowels  ; 
the  very  name  of  the  tree  may  put  an  end  io  ail 
2  *- 


IS  THE  HOLY  W\K 

controversy  in  this  matter.  I  therefore,  at  this  time* 
shai!  only  add  Ibis  advice  to  you,  under,  and  by  the 
leave  of  my  icrd,"  and  with  that  he  made  Diabohis 
a  very  low  conge.  "  Consider  his  words,  look  on 
the  tree,  and  the  promising  fruit  thereof;  remem- 
ber also,  that  yet  you  know  little,  and  that  this  is 
the  way  to  know  more;  and  if  your  reasons  he  not 
conquered  to  accept  of  this  good  counsel,  you  are 
not  the  men  I  took  you  to  be."  But  when  the  towns- 
folk saw  that  the  tree  was  good  for  food,  and  that  it 
was  pleasant  to  the  eye,  and  a  tree  to  be  desired  td 
make  one  wise,  they  did  as  old  Ill-pause  advised — 
they  took  and  did  eat  thereof.  Now  this  I  should 
have  told  you  before,  that  even  then  when  this  Ill- 
pause  was  making  of  his  speech  to  the 
My  Lord  townsmen,  my  Lord  Innocency,  (whe- 
hmocency's  ther  by  a  shot  from  the  camp  of  the 
death.  giant,  or  some  sinking  qualm  that  sud- 

denly took  him,  or  whether  by  the 
stinking  breath  of  that  treacherous  villian,  old  III- 
pause,  for  so  I  am  most  apt  to  think)  sunk  down  in 
*he  place  where  he  stood,  nor  could  he  be  brought 
to  life  again.  Thus  these  two  brave  men  died ; — 
Brave  men  I  call  them,  for  they  were  the  beauty 
and  glory  of  Mansoul,so  long  as  they  lived  therein  ; 
nor  did  there  now  remain  any  more  a  noble  spirit  in 
Mansoul,  they  all  fell  down,  and  yielded  obedience 
to  Diabolus,  and  became  his  slaves  and  vassals  a« 
you  shall  hear. 

Now  these  being  dead,  what  do  the 
Thetoruntak-  rest  of  the  townsfolk,  but  as  men  that 
<m,  and  how.  had  found  a  fool's  paradise,  they  pres- 
ently, as  afore  was  hinted,  fall  to  prove 
the  truth  of  the  giant's  words,  and  first  they  did  as 
Ill-pause  had  taught  them  ;  they  looked,  they  consid- 
ered, they  were  taken  with  the  forbidden  fruit,  "they 
took  thereof  and  did  eat :"  and  having  eaten,  they 
became  immediately  drunken  therewith,  30  they 
opened  the  gates,  both  Ear-gate  and  Eye-gate,  and 
let  in  Diabolus  with  all  his  bands,  quite  forgetting 
their  good  Shaddai,  his  law,  and  the  judgment  that 
he  had  annexed  with  solemn  threatening  to  the 
breach  thereof. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  |ft 

Diabolus  having  now  obtained  entrance  in  at  the 
gates  ofthe  town,  marches  up  the  middle  thereof, 
to  make  his  conquest  as  sure  as  he  could,  and  find- 
ing, by  this  time,  the  affections  of  the  people  warm- 
ly inclining  to  him,  he  thinking  'twas  best  striking 
while  the  iron  was  hot,  made  this  further  deceiv- 
able  speech  unto  them,  saying,  "  Alas  my  poor 
Mansoul;  I  have  done  thee  indeed  this  service,  a* 
to  promote  thee  to  honour,  and  to  greater,  thy  liber- 
ty, but  alas,  alas,  poor  Mansoul  ■  thou  wan  test  now 
to  defend  thee,  for  assure  thyself  that  when 
Sdai  shall  hear  what  is  done,  he  will  come,  for 
y  will  he  be  that  thou  hast  broken  his  bonds,  and 
his  cords  away  from  thee.  What  wilt  thou  do  ? 
thou,  after  enlargement,  suffer  thy  privileges 
to  be  invaded  and  taken  away  ?  Or  what  wilt  thou 
resolve  with  thyself?"  Then  they  all  with  one  con- 
sent said  to  this  preamble,  do  thou  reign 
over  us.  So  he  accepted  the  motion,  and  He  hsenter- 
became  the  king  of  the  town  of  Man-  taincd  for 
sou].  This  being  done,  the  next  Ihing  their  fchzg. 
was  to  give  him  possession  ofthe  castle,  He  is  pos- 
and  so  of  the  whole  strength  of  the  sessed f  ofthe 
town.  Wherefore,  into  tlie  castie  he  castle,  and 
goes,  it  was  that  which  Shaddai  built  fcriifieth  it 
in  Mansoul  for  his  own  delight  and  for  himself 
pleasure.  This  now  was  become  a  den 
and  hold  for  the  giant  Diabolus. 

Now  having  got  possession  of  this  stately  palace, 
or  castle,  what  doth  he,  but  make  a  garrison  for 
himself,  and  strengthens  and  fortifies  it  with  all 
sorts  of  provision  against  the  King  Shaddai,  or  those 
that  should  endeavour  the  regaining  of  it  to  him, 
and  his  obedience  again. 

This  done,  but  not   thinking   himself 
yet  secure   enough,  in  the  next  place  he  He     new 
bethinks  himself  of  new  modelling  the  modellcth 
town,  and  so   he  goes,   setting   up   one  the  town. 
and  putting  down  another  at   pleasure ; 
wherefore  my  lord  Mayor,  whose  name  My       lord 
was  my  Lord   Understanding,  and  Mr.  Mayor  put 
Recorder,  whose  name  was  Mr.  Con-  out  of  place. 


2e  THE  HOfcY  WAR. 

science,  those  he  put  out  of  place  and  power. 

As  for  raj   lord  Mayor,  though  he  was  an  under- 
standing man,  and  one  too  that  had  complied  with 

the  rest  of  the  town  of  Mansoul  in  ad- 
2  Cor.  10.  mitling  of  the  giant  into  the  town,  yet 
4,  5.  Diabolus  thought  not  fit  to  let  him  abide 

in  his  former  lustre  and  glory,  because 
lie  was  a  seeing  man;  wherefore  he  darkened  it 
not  only  by  taking  from  him  his  office   and  power, 

but  by  building  of  an  high  and  strong 
Ephcs.  4  tower,  just  between  the  sun's  reflections 
18.  19.         and  the  windows  of  my  lord's  palace ; 

by  which  means  his  house,  and  all,  and 
the  whole  of  his  habitation,  was  made  as  dark  as 
darkness  itself.  And  thus  being  alienated  from  the 
light,  he  became  as  one  that  was  born  blind.  To 
this  his  house  my  lord  was  confined,  as  to  a  prison  ; 
nor  might  he,  upon  his  parole,  go  further  than  with- 
in his  own  bounds.  And  now  had  he  had  an  heart 
to  do  for  Majisoul,  what  could  he  do  for  it,  or 
wherein  could  he  be  profitable  to  her  ?  So  then,  so 
long  as  Mansoul  was  under  the  power  and  govern- 
ment of  Diabolus  (as  so  long  it  was  under  him  as  it 
was  obedient  to  him,  which  was,  even  until  by  a 
war  it  was  rescued  out  of  his  hand)  so  long  my  lord 
Mayor  was  rather  an  impediment,  than  an  advan- 
tage to  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul. 

As  for  Mr.  Recorder,  before  the  town 
The  Reccr-  was  taken*  he  was  a  man  well  read  in 
der  put  out  the  laws  of  his  King,  and  also  a  man  of 
#f  his  plate,  courage  and  faithfulness  to  speak  truth 

at  every  occasion  ;  and  he  had  a  tongue 
&s  bravely  hung  as  he  had  an  head  filled  with  judg- 
ment. ISTow  this  man  Diabolus  could  by  no  means 
abide,  because  though  he  gave  his  consent  to  his 
eoming  into  the  town,  yet  he  could  not,  bjr  all  the 
wiles,  trials,  stratagems,  and  advices  that  he  could 
use,  make  him  wholly  his  own.  True  he  waa  much 
degenerated  from  his  former  King,  and  also  much 
pleased  with  many  of  the  giants  laws  and  service* 

but  ail  this  would  not  do,  for  as  much  as 
Me     steme-  he  was  not  wholly  his.     He  would  now 


THE  HOLY  WAIL  2i 

and  then  think  upon  Shaddai,  and  have  times  speaks 
a  dread  of  his  law  upon  him,  and  then  Vie  for  his  first 
would  speak  with  a  voice  as  great  against  King. 
Diabolus  as  when  a  lion  roareih ;  yea 
and  would  also  at  certain  times,  when  his  fits  were 
upon  him  (for  you  must  know  that  sometimes  he 
had  terrible  fits)  make  the  whole  town  of  Mansoul 
shake  with  his  voice,  and  therefore  the  now  king  of 
Mar  soul  could  not  abide  hina. 

Diabolus  therefore  feared  the  Recorder  more 
than  any  that  was  left  alive  in  the  town  of  Mansoul, 
because,  as  I  said,  his  words  did  shake  the  whole 
town,  they  were  like  the  rattling  thunder,  and  als« 
like  thunder  claps.  Since  therefore  the 
giant  could  not  make  him  wholly  his  He  is  more 
own,  what  doth  he  but  studies  all  that  debauched 
he  could  to  debauch  the  old  gentleman  than  before. 
and  by  debauchery  to  stupify  his  mind, 
and  more  harden  his  heart  in  the  ways  of  vanity. 
And  as  he  attempted,  so  he  accomplished  his  design; 
he  debauched  the  man  by  little,  and  little,  so  drew 
him  into  sin  and  wickedness,  that  at  last  he  wras  not 
only  debauched  as  at  first,  and  so  by  consequence 
defiled,  but  was  almost,  at  last,  I  say,  past  ail  con- 
science in  sin.  And  this  was  the  farthest  Diabolus 
could  go :  wherefore  he  bethinks  him  of  another 
project,  and  that  was  to  persuade  the  men  of  the 
town  that  Mr.  Recorder  was  mad,  and  so  not  to  be 
regarded.  And  for  this  he  urged  his  fits,  and  said, 
if  he  be  himself,  why  doth  he  not  do  this  always  ? 
But,  quoth  he,  as  all  mad  folks  have  their  fits,  and 
in  them  their  raving  language,  so  hath  this  old  and 
doated  gentleman.  Thus  by  one  means 
or  another  he  quickly  got  Mansoul  to  The  town 
slight,  neglect,  and  despise  whatever  taken  off 
Mr.  Recorder  could  say.  For  besides  from  head- 
what  already  you  have  heard,  Diabolus  ing  of  him* 
had  a  way  to  make  the  old  Gentleman, 
when  he  was  merry  unsay  and  deny  How  con* 
what  he  had  in  his  fits  affirmed.  And  science  be- 
indeed,  this  was  the  next  way  to  make  comes  so  ri- 
himself  ridiculous,  and  to  cause  that  no  dkulous  as 


22  THE  HOLY  AVAR. 

tvith  carnal  man  should  regard  him.     Also  now  he 
men  it  is.      never  spake   freely  for  King  Shaddai, 

but  always  by  force  and  constraint;  be- 
sides, he  would  at  one  time  be  hot  against  that  at 
which  at  another  he  would  hold  his  peace.  So  un- 
even w?as  he  now  in  his  doings,  sometimes  he  would 
be  fast  asleep,  and  again  sometimes  as  dead,  even 
then  when  the  whole  town  of  Mansoul  was  in  her 
career  after  vanily,  and  in  her  dance  after  the  gi- 
ant's pine. 

Wherefore  when  sometimes  Mansoul  used  to  be 
frighted  with  the  thundering  voice  of  the  Record- 
er that  was,  and  when  they  did  tell  Diabolus  of  if, 
lie  would  answer,  "That  what  the  old  gentle- 
man said,  was  neither  of  love  to  him  nor  pity  to 
them,  but  of  a  foolish  fondness  that  he  had  to  be 
prating,"  and  so  would  hush,  stiil,  and  put  all  to  quiet 
again.  Ami  that  he  might  leave  no  argument  un- 
urged,  that  might  tend  to  make  '  them  secure,  he 
said  and  said  it  often,  "  O  Mansoul  !  consider,  that 
notwithstanding  the  old  gentleman's  rage,  and  the 
rattle  of  his  high  and  thundering  words,  you  hear 
nothing  of  Shaddai  himself,"  when,  lier  and  decei- 
ver that  he  was,  every  outcry  of  Mr.  Recorder  a- 
gainst  the  sin  of  Mansoul  was   the  voice  of  God  in 

him  to  them  ;  But  he  goes- on  and  says, 
Salanical  "  You  see  that  he  values  not  the  loss 

rhetoric.        nor  rebellion  of  the  town  of  Mansoul, 

nor  will  he  trouble  himself  with  call- 
ing of  his  town  to  a  reckoning  for  this  giving  of 
themselves  to  me.  He  knows  that  though  ye  were 
his,  now  you  are  lawfully  mine;  so  leaving  us  one 
to  another  he  now  hvih  shaken  his  hands  of  us. 
Moreover,  0  Mansoul  !  quoth  he*  consider  now  I 
have  served  you,  even  to  the  uttermost  of  my 
power,  and  that  with  the  best  that  I  have,  could 
get,  or  procure  for  you  in  all  the  world  ;  besides,  I 
dare  say,  (hat  the  laws  and  customs  that  you  now  are 
under,  and  by  which  you  do  homage  to  me,  do  yield 
you  more  solace  and  content,  than  did  the  paradise 

that  at  firs'  you  possessed.  \  ou>  liberty 
His  Jlatte-  also,  as  yourselves  do  very  well  know. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  23 

lias  been  greatly  widened  and  enlarged  vies. 

by  me,  whereas  I  found  fou  a  penVd  up 

people,  I  have  not  laid  any  restraint  upon  you  ;  you 

have  no  law,  statue  or  judgment  of  mine  to  fright 

you ;  I  call  none  of  yo.i  la  an  account 

for  your  doings,  except  the  madman,  you  Conscience. 

know  who  I  mean ;  I  have  granted  you 

to  live  each    man    like  a  prince  in  his  owrn,   even 

with  as  little  contro  as  I  myself  have  from 

you.5' 

And  thus  would  D-  ush  up,  and  quiet  the 

town  of  Mansoul,  when  the  Recorder 
that  was,  did  at  times  molest  them  ;  Yea,  Men  some- 
with  such  cursed  orations  as  these,  would  Ihncs  an- 
set  the  whole  town  in  a  rage  and  fury  gry  with 
against  the  old  gentlemen,  Yea,  the  their  cc?i- 
rascal  crew,  at  sometimes,  wo?i!<i  be  for  sciences. 
destroying  him.     Theyhav*  \h- 

ed,  in  my  hearing,  that  he  had  lived  a  thousand 
miles  off  from  them;  his  company,  his  words,  yea, 
the  sight  cf  him,  and  especially  when  they  remem- 
bered how,  in  old  times,  he  did  use  to  threaten  and 
condemn  them ;  for  all  he  was  now  so  debauched, 
did  terrify  and  afflict  them  sere. 

But  all  wishes  were  vain,  for  I  do  nbt  know  how, 
unless  by  the  power  of  Shaddai,  and  his  wisdom,  he 
was  preserved  in  being  amongst  them. 
Besides   his  house   was   as  strong  as  a  III  thougfUs 
castle,  and  stood  hard  by  a  strong  hold  Of  fears. 
of  the  town.     Moreover,  if  at  any  time 
any  of  the  crew  or  rabble  attempted   to  take  him 
away,  he  could   pull   up  the  slices,  and  let  in  such 
floods  as  would  drown  ail  round  about  him. 
But  to  leave  Mr.   Recorder,  and  to 
come  to  my  lord  Willbewill,    another  The  will. 
of  the  gentry  of  the   famous   town    of 
Mansoul.     This  Willbewill  was  as  high  born  as  any 
man   in  Mansoul,  and  was  as  much,  if  not  more,  a 
freeholder  that  many  ©f  them  were ;  Besides,  if  I 
remember   my  tale  aright,   he  had  some  privilege 
pc  c  miar  to  himself  in  the  famous  town   of  Mansoul ; 
Now   together   with  these,  he  was  a  man  of  great 


24  THE  HOLT  W^K. 

strength,  resolution  and  courage,  nor  in  his  eccasioa 
could  any  turn  him  away.  Bat  I  say,  whether  he 
was  proud  of  his  estate,  privilege,  strength,  or  what 
(but  sure  it  was  through  the  pride  of  something)  he 
scorns  now  to  be  a  slave  in  Mansoul,  and  therefore 
resolves  to  bear  office  under  Diabolus  that  he  might 
(such  an  one  as  he  was)  lie  a  petty  ruler  and  gover- 
nor in  Mansoul ;  And,  head  strong  man  that  he  was, 
thus  he  began  betimes;  for  this  man,  when  Diabo- 
lus did  make  his  oration  at  Ear-gate,  was  one  of  the 
first  that  was  for  consenting  to  his  words,  and  for 
accepting  of  counsel  as  wholesome,  and  that  was 
for  the  opening  of  the  gate,  and  for  letting  him  into 
the  town  ;  wherefore  Diabolus  had  a  kindness  for 
him,  and  therefore  he  designed  for  him  a  place ;  and 
perceiving  the  valour  and  stoutness  of  the  man,  he 
coveted  to  have  him  for  one  of  his  great  ones,  to  act 
and  do  in  matters  of  the  highest  concern. 

So  he  sent  for  him,  and  talked  with 
The  tvill  him  of  that  secret  matter  that  lay  in  his 
takes  place  breast,  but  there  needed  not  much  per- 
under  Di-  suasion  in  tfce  case.  For,  as  at  first,  he 
ttbolus.  was  willing  that  Diabolus  should  be  let 
into  the  town  so  now  he  was  as  willing 
to  serve  him  there  ;  when  the  tyrant  therefore  per- 
ceived the  willingness  of  my  lord  to  serve  him,  and 
that  his  mind  stood  bending  that  way, 
Heart.  he  forthwith  made  him  captain  of  the 

Flesh.  castle,  governor  of  fhe  wall,  and  keeper 

Senses.         of  the  gates  of  Mansoul :     Yea,  there 
was  a  clause  in  his  commission,  "  That 
nothing  without  him  could  be  done  in  all  the  town 
•f  Mansoul  ?"  So  that  now  next  to  Diabolus  himself, 
who  but  my  lord  WHlbewill  in  all  the 
Rom.  8.  7.    town  of  Munsoul !  nor  could  any  thiug 
now  be   done  but  at  his  will  and  plea- 
sure, throughout  the  town  of  Mansoul. 
Mr.    Mind  He  bad  alao  one  Mr.  Mind  for  his  clerk, 
my     lord's  a  man  to  speak  on   every  way  like  hii 
derk.  master;    for    he    and  his  lord  were  ia 

principle  one,  and  in  practice   not  far 
%phes*     2.  asunder.       Aad     now    was     Mansoul 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  2j 

brought   under    io    purpose,   and  mads  2,  3,  4. 
to  fulfil  the  lusts  of  the  will  and  of  the 
mind. 

But  it  will  not  go  out  of  my  thoughts  what  a  des- 
perate one  this  Willbewill  was,  when  power  was  pat 
into  his  hand.     First*  He  flatly  denied  that  he  owed 
any  suit  or  service  to  his  former  Prince  and  leige 
Lord.     This  done,  in  the  next  place,  he 
took  the  oath,  swore  fidelity  to  his  great  Tlie  carnal 
master  Diabolus,  and  then  was  stated  will opposeth 
and  settled  in  his   places,  offices,  ad-  conscience. 
vancements  and  preferments  ;  Oh!  you 
cannot  think  unless  you  had  seen  it,  the  strange 
work  that  this  workman  made  in  the  town  of  Man- 
soul. 

First,  He  maligned  Mr.  Recorder  to  death,  he 
would  neither  endure  to  see  him,  nor  to  hear  the 
words  of  his  mouth ;  he  would  aho  shut  his  eyes 
when  he  saw  him,  and  stop  his  ears  when  he  heard 
him  speak ;  Also  he  could  not  endure 
that  so  much  as  a  fragment  of  the  law  Tlie  corrupt 
of  Shaddai  should  be  any  where  3een  in  rvill  loves  a 
the  town.  For  example,  his  clerk,  Mr.  dark  under- 
Mind,  had  some  old  rent  and  torn  parch-  standing. 
ments  of  the  law  of  good  Shaddai  in  his 
house,  but  when  Willbewill  saw  them,  he  cast  them 
behind  his  back.  True,  Mr.  Recorder  had  some  of 
the  laws  in  his  study,  but  my  Lord  could  by  no  means 
come  at  them  ;  He  also  thought  and  said,  that  the 
windows  of  my  old  lord  Mayor's  house,  were  always 
too  light  for  the  profit  of  the  town  of  Maasoul.  The 
light  of  a  ca&lle  he  could  not  endure.  Now  noth- 
ing at  all  pleased  Willbewill  but  what  pleased  Di- 
abolus his  lord. 

There  was  none  like  him  to  trumpet  about  the 
streets,  the  brave  nature,  the  wise  conduct,  and  great 
glory  of  the  king  Diabolus ;    he  would  range  and 
rove  throughout  all  the  streets  of  Manaoul  to  cry  up 
his  illustrious  lord,  and  would  make  him- 
self even  as  abject  amongst  the  base  and  Vain 
rascal  crew,  to  cry  up  his  valiant  pi  nice,  thoughts. 
And, 1  say,  when,  and  wheresoever  he 
3 


26  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

found  these  vassals,  he  would  even  make  himself  as 
one  of  them.     In  all  ill  courses  he  would  act  wiihout 
bidding,  and  do  mischief  without  commandmeiat. 
The  Lord  Willbewill  also  had  a  deputy  under 

him,  and  his  name  was  Mr.  Affection, 
Horn.  1,25.  one  that  was   also  greatly  debauched  in 

his  principles,  and  answerable  thereto 
in  his  life  ;  he  was  wholly  given  to  the  flesh,  and 
therefore  they  called  him  vile  affection  :  now  there 
was  he  and  one  Carnal  Lust,  the  daughter  of  Mr. 

Mind'(like  to  like,  quoth  the  devil  to  the 
A  match  be-  collier)  that  fell  in  love,  and  made  a 
trvixl  Vile  match,  and  were  married;  and  us  1  take 
Affection  <£%it,  they  had  several  children,  as  Impru- 
CamalLust.dent,  Black-mouth,   and   Hate-reproof; 

these  three  were  black  boys,  and  beside 
these  they  had  three  daughters,  as  Scorn-truth,  and 
Slight-god,  and  the  name  of  the  youngest  was  re- 
venge ;  these  were  all  married  in  the  town,  and  also 
begot  and  yielded  many  bad  brats,  too  many  to  be 
feere  inserted.     But  to  pass  by  this. 

When  the  giant  had  thus  garrisoned  himself  in 
tlie  town  of  Mansoul,  and  had  put  down  and  set  up 
whom  he  thought  good,  he  betakes  himself  to  defa- 
cing. Now  there  was  in  the  market-place  of  Man- 
soul,  and  also  upon  the  gates  of  the  castle,  an  image 
ef  the  Blessed  King  Shaddai;  this  image  was  so  ex- 
actly engraven  (and  it  was  engraven  in  gold)  that  it 
did  the  most  resemble  Shaddai  himself  of  any  thing 
that  was  then  extant  in  the  world.     This  he  basely 

commanded  to  be  defaced,  and  it  was 
What  "iVo-  basely  done  by  the  hand  of  Mr.  No- 
truthdid.      truth.     Now  you  must   know,   that  as 

Diabolus  had  commanded,  and  that  by 
the  hand  of  No-truth,  the  image  of  Shaddai  was  de- 
faced. He  likewise  gave  orders  that  the  same  Mr. 
No-truth  should  set  up  in  its  stead  the  horrid  and 
formidable  image  of  Diabolus,  to  the  great  contempt 
of  the  former  king,  and  debasing  of  his  town  of  Man- 
soul. 

Moreover  Diabolus  made  havoc  of  all 
Alt      I&rv-  remains  of  the  laws  and  statutes  of  Shawl- 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  2? 

dai  that  could  be  found  in  the  town  of  looks  des- 
Mansoul :  to  wit,  such  a3  contained  ei-  troyed  that 
ther  the  doctrine  of  morals,  v*i\h  aii  civ-  could  be  so. 
il  and  natural  documents :  also  relative 
severities  he  sought  to  extinguish.  To  he  short, 
there  was  nothing  of  the  remains  of  good  in  Man- 
soul,  which  he  and  Willbewill  sought  not  to  destroy, 
for  their  design  wa3  to  turn  Mansoul  into  a  brute, 
and  to  make  it  like  to  the  sensual  sow,  by  the  hand 
of  Mr.  No-truth. 

When  he  had  destroyed  what  law  and  good  orders 
he  could,  then  further  to  effect  his  design,  namely, 
to  alienate  Mansoul  from  Shaddai  her 
king,  he  commands,  and  they  set  up  his  2  John,  2. 
•wn  vain  edicts,  statutes,  and  command- 
ments in  all  places  of  resort  or  concourse  in  Man- 
soul ;  to  wit,  such  as  gave  liberty  to  the  lusts  of  the 
flesh,  the  lusts  of  the  eye,  and  the  pride  of  life,  which 
are  not  of  Shaddai,  but  of  the  world.  He  encour- 
aged, countenanced,  and  promoted  lasciviousness 
and  all  ungodliness  there.  Yea,  much  more  did  Di- 
abolus  to  encourage  wickedness  in  the  town  of  Man- 
soul, he  promised  them  peace,  content,  joy  and  bliss* 
in  doing  his  commands;  and  that  they  should  never 
be  called  to  an  account  for  their  not  doing  the  con- 
trary. "  And  let  this  serve  to  give  a  taste  to  them 
that  love  to  hear  tell  of  what  is  done  beyond  their 
knowledge  afar  off  in  other  countries. 

Now  Mansoul  being  wholly  at  his  beck,  and 
brought  wholly  to  his  bow,  nothing  was  heard  or 
seen  therein  but  that  which  tended  to  set  him  up. 

But  now  we  have  disabled  the  lord 
Mayor  and  Mr.  Recorder  from  bearing  They  have 
office  in  Mansoul ;  and   seeing  that  the  a  new  lord 
town,  before  he  come  to  it,  was  the  most  Mayor  and 
ancient  of  corporations  in  the  world,  and  a  new  Re~ 
fearing,  if  he  did  not  maintain  its  great-  corder. 
ness,  that  they,   at  any  time,  should  ob- 
ject that  he  had  done  them  an  injury  :  Therefore,  I 
say,  that  they  might  see  that  he  did  not  intend  to 
lessen  their  grandeur,  or  to  take  from  them  any  of 
their  advantageous  things,  he  did  choose  for  them  a 


2Z  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

lord  Mayor  and  a  Recorder  himself,  and  such  as 
contented  all  of  them  at  the  heart,  and  such  also  as 
pleased  him  wonderous  well. 

The  name  of  the  Mayor  that  was  of 
The  new  Diabolus'  making  was  the  lord  Lust- 
lord Mayor,  ings  :  a  man  that  had  neither  eyes  nor 

ears,  all  that  he  did,  whether  as  a  man 
er  as  an  officer,  he  did  it  naturally,  as  doth  the  beast. 
And  that  which  made  him  yet  the  more  ignoble, 
though  not  to  Mansoul,  yet  to  them  that  beheld,  and 
were  grieved  for  its  ruin,  was,  that  he  could  never 
favour  good  but  evil. 

The  Recorder  was  one  whose  name 
The  new  was  Forget-good,  and  very  sorry  fellow 
Recorder,     he  was.     He  c©uld  remember  nothing 

but  mischief,  and  to  do  it  with  delight. 
He  was  naturally  prone  to  do  things  that  were  hurt- 
ful, even  hurtful  to  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  to  all 
the  dwellers  there.     These  two   therefore,  by  their 

power  and  practice,  example  and  smiles 
Thoughts,    upon  evil,  did  much  more  grammar  and 

settle  the  common  people  in  hurtful 
woes.  For  who  doth  not  perceive  but  when  those 
that  sit  aloft  are  vile,  and  corrupt  themselves,  they 
corrupt  the  whole  region  and  country  where  they 
are. 

Besides  these,  Diabolus  made  several 
He  (hill  burgesses  and  aldermen  in  Mansoul, 
make  tliem  such  as  out  of  whom  the  town,  when  it 
new  alder-  neecleth,  might  choose  them  officers, 
I  and  gov  em  ours and  magistrates;  and  these 
•who.  e  the  names  of  the  chief  of  them.  Mr. 

Incredulity,  Mr.  Haughty,  Mr,  Swear- 
ing, Mr.  Whoring,  Mr.  HariJheart,  Mr.  Pitiless,  Mr. 
Fury,  Mr.  No-truth,  Mr.  Stand-to-Iies,  Mr.  False- 
speech,  Mr.  Drunkenness,  Mr.  Cheating,  and  Mr. 
Atheism,  thirteen  in  all.  Mr.  Incredulity  is  the 
eldest,  and  Mr.  Atheism  the  youngest  of  the  com- 
pany. 

There  was  also  an  election  of  common  council- 
men  and  others,  as  bailiffs,  Serjeants,  constables  and 
others,  hot  all  of  them,  like  to  those  aforenamed,  be- 


ME  HOLY  WAR.  2§ 

ing  either  fathers,  brothers,  cousins,  or  nephews  to 
them;  whose  names,  for  brevity's  sake,  I  omit  to 
mention. 

When  the  giant  had  thus  far  proceed- 
ed in  his  work,  in  the  next  place  he  be-  He  build- 
took  him  to  build  some  strong  holds  in  eth  three 
the  town.  And  he  built  three  that  seem-  strong  holds 
ed  to  be  impregnable,  the  first  he  called  their  names 
the  Held  of  Defiance,  because  it  was  and  gover- 
made  to  command  the  whole  town,  and  nors. 
to  keep  it  from  the  knowledge  of  its  an- 
cient King.  The  second  he  called  Midnight  hold, 
because  it  was  builded  on  purpose  to  kaep  Mansoul 
from  the  true  knowledge  of  itself.  The  third  was 
called  Sweet-sin-hold,  because  by  that  he  fortified 
Mansoul  against  all  desire  of  good.  The  first  of 
these  holds  stood  close  by  Eye-gate,  that  as  much 
as  might  be  light,  might  be  darkened  there.  The 
second  was  built  hard  by  the  Old-Casiie,  to  the  end 
that  it  might  be  made  more  blind,  if  possible. ,  And 
the  third  stood  in  the  market  place. 

He  that  Diahslus  mads  governor  over  the  first  of 
these  was  one  Spite-God,  a  most  blasphemous 
wretch ;  he  came  with  the  whole  rabble  of  tlfem 
that  came  against  Mansoul  at  first,  and  was  himself 
one  of  them.  He  that  was  made  governor  of  Mid- 
night-hold was  one  Love-no-light.  He  was  also  of 
them  that  came  first  against  the  town :  and  he  that 
was  made  the  governor  of  the  hold  called  Sweet- s  u- 
hold,  was  one  whose  name  was  Love-flesh,  he  was 
also  a  very  lewd  fellow,  but  not  of  that  country  where 
the  others  are  bound.  This  fellow  could  find  more 
sweetness  when  he  stood  sucking  of  a  lust,  than  he 
did  in  ail  the  paradise  of  God. 

And  now  Diabolus  thought  himself  safe,  he  had 
taken  Mansoul ;  he  had  garrisoned  him- 
self therein;    he  had  put  down  the  old  Diabolus 
officers  and  had  set  up  new  ones ;  he  has     luade 
had  defaced  the  image  of  Shaddai  and  his  nest. 
had  set  up  his  own ;  he  had  spoiled  the 
old  law  books  and  had  promoted  his  own  vain  lies ,; 
fee  had  made  him  new  magistrates  and  set  up  new 
-  v3  * 


aldermen ;  he  had  built  his  new  holds  and  had  man- 
ned them  for  himself:  and  all  this  he  did  to  rmike 
himself  secure,  in  case  the  good  Shaddai,  or  his  son* 
should  come  to  make  an  incursion  upon  him. 

Now  you  may  well  think,  that  long 
Tidings  car-  before  this  time,  word,  by  some  or  oth- 
ried  to  the  er  could  not  but  be  carried  to  the  good 
court  of  King  Shaddai,  how  his  Mansoul  in  the 
what  had  continent  of  universe  was  .lost ;  and 
happened  to  that  the  runagate  giant  Diabolus,  once 
Mansoul.  one  of  his  majesty's  servants,  had  in  re* 
hellion  against  the  King  made  sure 
thereof  for  himself;  yea,  tidings  were  carried  and 
brought  to  the  King  thereof,  and  that  t©  a  very  cir* 
Cumstance. 

As  first,  how  Diabolus  came  upon  Mansoul  (they 
being  a  simple  people  and  innocent)  with  craft,  sub- 
tility,  lies  and  guile;  Item,  That  he  had  treacher* 
©usly  slain  the  right  noble  and  valiant  captain,  their 
•aptain  Resistance,  as  he  stood  upon  the  gate  with 
the  rest,  of  the  townsmen;  Item,  How  my  brave 
Lord  Innocence  fell  down  dead  (with  grief  some 
fay,  or  with  being  poisoned  with  the  stinking  breath 
of  one  111  pause  as  say  others)  at  the  hearing  of  his 
just  Lord*  and  rightful  prince  Shaddai  so  abused  by 
the  mouth  of  so  filthy  a  Diabolian  as  that  varlet  Ill- 
pause  was.  The  messenger  further  told,  that  after 
this  III  pause  had  made  a  short  oration  to  the  towns* 
men  in  behalf  of  Diabolus,  his  master,  the  simple 
town  believing  that  what  was  said  was  true,  with 
one  consent  did  open  Ear-gate,  the  chief  gate  of  the 
corporation  and  did  let  him,  with  his  crew,  into  a 
possession  of  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul.  He  fur* 
ther  shewed  how  Diabolus  had  served  the  Lord 
Mayor  and  Mr.  Recorder,  to  wit,  that  he  had  put 
them  from  all  places  of  power  and  trust:  Item,  He 
shewed  also  that  my  Lord  Wiilbewill  was  turned  a 
rery  rebel  and  runagate,  and  that  so  was  one  Mr. 
Mind,  his  clerk,  and  that  they  two  did  range  and  re- 
yel  it  all  the  town  over,  and  teach  the  wicked  ones 
their  ways.  He  said  moreover,  that  this  Wiilbewill 
was  put  into  great  trust ;  and  particularly,  that  Dia 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  31 

bolus  had  put  into  Willbewill's  hand  all  the  strong 
places  in  Mansoul ;  and  that  Mr.  Affection  was  made  . 
my  lord  Willbewill's  deputy  in  his  most  rebellious 
affairs.  Yea,  said  the  messenger,  this  monster,  lord 
Willbewill,  has  openly  disavowed  his  King  Shad- 
dai,  and  hath  horribly  given  his  faith  and  plighted 
his  truth  to  Diabolus. 

Also  said  the  messenger,  besides  all  this,  the  new 
king,  or  rather  rebellious  tyrant,  over  the  once  fa- 
mous, but  now  perishing  town  of  Mansoul,  has  set 
up  a  Lord  Mayor  and  a  Recorder  of  his  own.  For 
Mayor  he  has  set  up  one  Mr.  Lustings,  and  for  Re- 
corder Mr.  Forget-good,  two  of  the  vilest  of  all  the 
town  of  Mansoul.  This  faithfwl  messenger  also  pro- 
ceeded and  told  what  a  sort  of  new  burgesses  Dia- 
bolus had  made,  also  that  he  had  builded  several 
strong  fort3,  towers,  and  strong  holds  in  Mansoul. 
He  told  too,  that  which  I  had  almost  forgot,  howr 
Diabolus  had  put  the  town  of  Mansoul  into  arms,  the 
better  to  capacitate  them  on  his  behalf  to  make  re- 
sistance against  Shaddai  their  King,  should  he  come 
to  reduce  them  to  their  former  obedience. 

Now  this  tiding's-teller  did  not  deliver  his  rela- 
tion of  things  in  private,  but  in  open  court,  the  King 
and   his  Son,  high  lords,  chief  captains,  and  nobles 
being  all  there  present  to  hear.     But  by  that  they 
had   heard  the  whole  of  the  story,   it 
would   have  amazed  one  to  have  seen,  Grief       at 
had  he  been  there  to  behold  it,  what  sor-  court       to 
sow  and  grief,  and  compunction  of  spirit  hear      the 
there  was  amongst  all  sorts,  to  think  that  tidings. 
famous  Mansoul   was  now  taken ;  only 
the  King  and  his  Son  foresaw   all   this   long  before, 
yea,  and   sufficiently  provided  for  the  relief  of  Man- 
soul, though  they  told  not  every  body  thereof;  yet 
because  they  would  also  have  a  share  in  condoling  of 
the  misery  of  Mansoul,  therefore  they  also  did,  and 
that  at  the   rate  of  the  highest  degree,  bewail  the 
losing  of  Mansoul.  The  king  said  plain- 
ly, that  it  grieved  him  at  the  heart,  and  Gen.  6.  5.  6. 
you  may  be  sure  that  his  Son  was  not  a 
whit  behind  hira,     Thus  gave  they  conviction  to  all 


32  «*E  HOI.T  WAR. 

about  them,  that  they  had  love  and  compassion  for 
the  famous  town  of  Mansoul.  Well,  when  the  King 
and  his  San  were  retired  into  the  privy  chamber, 
there  they  again  consulted  abbut  what 
The  secrets  they  had  designed  before,  to  wit,  That 
•/'  his  pur-  as  Mansoul  should  in  time  be  suffered  to 
pose.  be  lost,  so  as  certainly  it  should  be  re- 

covered again  :  recovered,  I  say,  in  such 
a  way,  as  both  the  King  and  his  Son  would  get  them- 
selves eternal  fame  and  glory  thereby. 
The  Son  of  Wherefore   after    this  consultation,  the 
God.  son  of  Shaddai  (a  sweet  and  comely 

person,  and  one  that  had  always  great 
affection  for  those  that  were  in  affliction,  but  one 
that  had  mortal  enmity  in  his  heart  a- 
Isa.  49,  5.  gainst  Diabolus,  because  he  was  design- 
I,  Tim.  1.  edforit,  and  because  he  fought  his  crown 
15.  and  dignity.)     This  son  of  Shaddai,  I 

Hos.  13. 24.  say,   having   stricken    hands    with    his 
father,  and  promised  that  he   would  be 
his  servant  to  recover  his  Mansoul  again,  stood  by 
his  resolution,  nor  would  he  repent  of  the  same.    The 
purport  of  which  agreement  was  ihis  $ 
A  hrave  de-  to  wit,  "  That  at  a  certain  time,  prefix- 
sign  onfoot  ed  hy  both,  the  King's  son  should  take 
forthetorvn  a  journey  into  the  country  of  Universe, 
of  Mansoul.  and  there,  in  a  way  of  justice  and  equity, 
by  making  of  amends  for  the  follies  of 
Mansoul,  he  should  lay  a  foundation  of  her  perfect 
deliverance  from  Diabolus,  and  from  his  tyranny." 

Moreover  Emmanuel  resolved  to  make,  at  a  time 
convenient,  a  war  upon  the  giant   Diabolus,  even 
while  he  was  possessed  of  the  town  of 
By  the  Holy  Mansoul;  and  that  he  would  fairly,  by 
Ghost.  strength  of  hand,  drive  him  out  of  his 

hold,  his  nest,  and  to  take  it  t©  himself 
to  be  his  habitation. 

This  now  being  resolved  upon,  orders 
The     holy  were  given  to  the  lord  chief  secretary, 
scriptures,    to  draw  up  a  fair  record  of  what  was  de- 
termined, and  to  cause  that  it  should  be 
published  ia  all  the  corners  rf  tbe  kingdom  of  Unl* 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  3$ 

verse.     A  short  breviate  of  the  contents  thereof  yoa 
may,  if  you  please,  take  here  as  follows. 

"Let  all  men  know,  who  are  concern- 
ed, that  the  son  of  Shaddai,  the  great  The      con- 
King,  i3  engaged   by   covenant  to  his  tents. 
father,   to   bring    his    Mansoul    to  hira 
again ;  yea,  and  to  put   Mansoul  too,  through  the 
power  of  his  matchless  love,  into  a  far  better  and 
more  happy  condition  than  it  was  in  before  it  was 
taken  by  Diabolus." 

These  papers  therefore  were  published  in  several 
places,  to  the  no  little  molestation  of  the  tyrant  Di- 
abolus ;  for  now,  theught  he,  I  shall  be  molested, 
and  my  habitation  will  be  taken  from  me. 

But  when  this  matter,  I  mean  this  purpose,  of  the 
King  and  his  Son  did  at  first  take  air  at  court ;  who 
can  tell  how  the  high  lords,  chief  captains,  and  uo- 
ble  princes  that  were  there  were  taken  with  the  bu- 
siness.    First,  they  whispered  it  one  to  another,  and 
after  that,  it  began  to  ring  throughout 
the  King's  palace,    all  wondering  at  the  Among  the 
glorious  design  that  (between  the  King  angels. 
and  his  Son)  was  on  foot  for  the  misera- 
ble town  of  Mansoul :     Yea,  the  courtiers  could 
scarce  do  any  thing  either  for  the  king  or  kingdom, 
but  they  would  mix  with  the  doing  thereof  a  noise 
of  the  love  of  the  King  and  his  Son,  that  they  had 
for  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Nor  eouid  these  lords,  high  captains  Diabolus 
and  princes  be  contented  to  keep  this  perplexed  at 
news  at  court,  yea,  before  the  records  the  news. 
thereof  were  perfected  themselves  cams 
down  and  told  it* in  Universe.     At  last  it  came  to 
the  ears,  as  I  said,  of  Diabolus,  to  his  no  little  dis- 
content; for  you  must  think  it  would   perplex  him 
to  hear  of  such  a  design  against  him :  Well,  but  af- 
ter a  few  casts  in  his  mind*  he  concluded  upon  these 
four  things. 

First,   That  this  news,  these  good  ti- 
dings if  possible,  should  be  kept  from  the  He  eonclu- 
ears  of  the  town  oi  Mansoul ;  for  said  he  ded  on  sevr 
if  they  shall  oacecome  to  the  know-  eral  things. 


34  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

ledge  that  Shaddai  their  former  King,  and  Emma** 
uel  his  son  are  contriving  good  for  the  town  of  Man- 
soul,  what  can  he  expected  by  me,  but  that  Mansoui 
will  make  a  revolt  from  under  my  hand  and  govern- 
ment, and  return  again  to  him. 

Now  to  accomplish  this  his  design,  he 
First  how  renews  his  flattery  with  my  lord  Willbe- 
to  keep  the  will,  and  also  gives  him  strict  charge  and 
news  from  command,  that  he  should  keep  watch  by 
Mansoui.  day,  and  by  night,  at  all  the  gates  of 
the  town,  especially  Ear-gate,  and  Eye- 
gate  ;  "  For  I  hear  of  a  design,  quoth  he,  a  design 
to  make  us  all  traitors,  and  that  Mansoui  must  be 
reduced  to  its  first  bondage  again  :  I  hope  they  are 
but  flying  stories,  quoth  he,  however  let  no  such 
news  by  any  means  be  let  into  Mansoui,  lest  the 
people  be  dejected  thereat :  I  think,  my  lord,  it  caa 
be  no  welcome  news  to  you,  I  am  sure 
The  will  it  is  none  to  me ;  and  I  think,  at  this 
engaged  a-  time,  it  should  be  all  our  wisdom  and 
gainst  the  care  to  nip  the  head  of  all  such  rumours, 
gospel.  .  as  shall  tend  to  trouble  our  people; 
wherefore  I  desire,  my  lord,  that  you  will 
Good  in  this  matter  do  as  I  say ;  let  there  be 

thcugltts      strong  guards  ^aily  kept  at  every  gate  of 
must        be  the  town  ;  stop  also,  and  examine   from 
kept  out  of  whence  such  come,  that  you  perceive  do 
the  town  of  from  far  come  hither  to  trade ;  nor  let 
Mansoui.      them,  by  any  means,  be  admitted  to  Man- 
soul,  unless  you   shall  plainly  perceive 
that  they  are  favourers  of  our  excellent  government, 
I   command   moreover,  said   Diabolus, 
All     good  that  there  be  spies  continually  walking 
thoughts      up  and  down  the  town  of  Mansoui,  and 
and  words  let  them  have  power  to  suppress  and  de- 
in  the  town  stroy  any  that  they  shall  perceive  to  be 
are    to    he  plotting  against  us,  or  that  shall  prate  of 
suppressed,  what  by  Shaddai  and  Emmanuel  is  in- 
tended. 
This  therefore  was  accordingly  done;  my  lord 
Willbewill  harkened  to  his  lord  and  master,  went 
willingly  after  his  commaadment,  and  with  all  the 


SFHE  HOLY  WAR,  SS* 

•tiligenee  he  could,  kept  any  that  would,  from  going 
out  abroad,  or  that  sought  to  bring  these  tidings  to 
Mansoul,  from  cornhtg  into  the  town. 

Secondly,  This  done,  in  the  next  place, 
Diobolus,  that  he  might  make  Mansoul  A  new  oath 
as  sure  as  he  could,  frames  and  imposes,  imposedup- 
a  new  oath,  and  horrible  covenant  upon  on  Mansoul 
the  towns  folk. 

To  wit.  "  That  they  should  never  desert  him  nor 
his  government,  nor  yet  betray  him,  nor  seek  to 
alter  his  laws ;  but  that  they  should  own,  confess, 
stand  by,  and  acknowledge  him  for  their  rightful 
king,  in  defiance  te  any  that  do,  or  hereafter  shall 
by  any  pretence,  law,  or  title  whatever, 
lay  claim  to  the  town  of  Mansoul,"  Isa.  28. 15. 
Thinking,  belike,  that  Shaddai  had  not 
power  to  absolve  them  from  his  covenant  with 
death,  and  agreement  with  hell.  Nor  did  the  silly 
Mansoul  stick,  or  boggle,  at  all  this  most  monstrous 
engagement,  but  ss  if  it  had  been  a  sprat  in  the 
mouth  of  a  whale,  they  swallowed  it  without  any 
chewing.  Were  they  troubled  at  it  ?  Nay,  they 
rather  bragged  and  boasted  of  their  so  brave  fidelity 
to  the  tyrant,  their  pretended  king,  swearing,  that 
they  would  never  be  changlings,  nor  forsake  their 
•Id  lord  for  a  new. 

Thus  did  Diabolus  tie  poor  Mansoul  fast,  but  jeal- 
ousy, that   never  thinks   itself  strong  enough,  put 
him  in  the  next  place  upon  another  ex- 
ploit, which  was  yet  more,  if  possible,  to  Odious  A" 
debauch  this  town  of  Mansoul ;  where-  iheistical 
fore  he  caused  by  the  hand  of  one  Mr.  pamphlets 
Filth,  an  odious,  nasty,  lascivious  piece  and    filthy 
of  beastliness  to  be  drawn  up  in  writing,  ballads  and 
and  to  be  set  upon  the  castle  gates ;  romances 
whereby  he  granted  and  gave  licence  to  full   of  r&* 
all  his  true  and  trusty  sons  in  Mansoul,  baldry. 
to  do  whatsoever  their  lustful  appetites 
prompted  them  to  do,  and  that  no  man  was  to  lefc 
hinder,  or   controul  them,   upon  paiu  of  incurring 
the  displeasure  of  their  prince. 

Now  this  fce  did  for  these  reasons : 


36  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Reason  <jf  First,  That  the  town  of  Mansoul 
his  thus  might  be  yet  made  weaker  and  weaker, 
doing.  and  so  more  unable,  should  tidings  come 

that  their  redemption  was  designed,  to 
believe,  hope,  or  consent  to  the  truth   thereof:  for 
job  says,  the,  bigger  the  sinner,  the  less  grounds 
of  hope  for  mercy. 

Secondly,  The  rea§on  was  if  perhaps  Emmanuel, 
the  son  of  Shaddai  their  King,  by  seeing  the  horrible 
and  profane  doings  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  might 
repent,  though  entered  into  a  covenant  of  redeeming 
tham,  of  pursuing  that  covenant  of  their  redemp- 
tion, for  he  knew  that  Shaddai  was  holy,  and  that 
his  son  Emmanuel  was  holy ;  yea,  he  knew  it  by 
woful  experience :  For,  for  the  iniquity  and  sin  of 
Diaholus  was  he  cast  from  the  highest  orbs  :  Where- 
fore, what  more  rational  than  for  him  to  conclude, 
th.it  thus,  for  sin,  it  might  fare  with  Mansoul.  But 
fearing  lest  this  knot  should  break,  he  bethinks  him- 
self of  another,  to  wit. 

Thirdly,  To  endeavour  to  possess  all  hearts  in  the 
town  of  Mansoul,  that  Shaddai  was  raising  of  an 
army,  to  come  to  overthrow,  and  utterly  to  destroy 
this  town  of  Mansoul,  and  this  he  did  to  forestal 
any  tidings  that  might  come  to  their  ears  of  their 
deliverance ;  for,  thought  he,  if  I  first  bruit  this,  the 
tidings  that  might  come  after  will  all  be  swajlowed 
«p  of  this,  for  what  else  will  Mansoul  say  wThen  they 
shall  hear  that  they  must  be  delivered,  but  that  the 
true  meaning  is,  Shatklai  intends  to  destroy  them : 
Wherefore  he  summonses  the  whole  town  into  the 
market-place,  and  there,  with  a  deceitful  tongue, 
thus  he  addresses  himself  unto  them. 

"Gentlemen,  and  my  very  good 
The  place  friends,  you  are  all,  as  you  know,  my 
of  hearing  legal  subjects,  and  men  of  the  famous 
mnd  of  ccn-  town  of  Mansoul ;  you  know  how,  from 
sidcring.  the  first  day  that  I  have  been  with  you 
until  now,  I  have  behaved  myself  a- 
mong  you,  and  what  liberty  and  great  privileges 
you  have  enjoyed  under  my  government,  I  hope  to 
your  honour  and  mine,  and  also  to  your  content  and 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  37 

delight ;  now  my  famous  Mansoul,  a  noise  of  trouble 
there  is  abroad,  of  trouble  for  the  town  of  Mansoul, 
sorry  1  am  therefore  for  your  sakes ;  for  I  received 
but  now,  by  the  post,  from  my  lord  Lucifer  (and  he 
nseih  to  have  good  intelligence)  that  your  old  King 
Shaddai  is  raising  of  an  army  to  come  against  you, 
to  destroy  you  root  and  branch:  and  thus,  O   Man- 
soul !  is  now  ihe  cause  that,  at  this  time,  I  have 
called  you  together ;  namely  to  advise  what,  in  this 
juncture,  is  best  to  be  done;  for  my  part  I  am  but 
one   and  can  with  ease  shift  for  myself,  did  I  list  to 
seek  my  own  ease,  and  to  leave  my  Mansoul  in  all 
danger;  but  my  heart  is  so  firmly  ■nited  to  you, 
and  so  unwilling  am  1  to  leave  you,  that  I  am  wil- 
ling to  stand  and  fall  with  you  to  the  ntmost  hazard 
that  shall  befal  me.     What  say  you,  O  my  Mansoul ! 
Will  you  now  desert  y@uro!d  friend,  or  do  you  think 
of  standing  by  me  ?"     Then,  as  ene  man,  with  one 
mouth,  they  cried  out   together,  Let  him  die  the 
death  that  will  not. 

Then  said  Diabolus  again,  "  It  is  in  vain  for  ui  to 
hope  for  quarter,  for  this  King  knows   not  how  to 
shew  it ;  true  perhaps,  he   that  is  first 
sitting  down  before  us,  will  talk  of  and  Very  de- 
pretend    to  mercy,    that   thereby,  with  ceivable 
the    more  ease  and  less  trouble,  he  may  language. 
again   make  himself  master  of  Mansoul ; 
whatever  therefore   he  shall   say,    believe  not  one 
syllable  or  tittle  of  it,  for  all  such  language  is  but  t» 
overcome  us,  and  to  make  us,  while   we   wallow  in 
our  blood,  the  trophies  of  his  merciless  victory.    My 
mind  is  therefore,  that  we  resolve,  to  the  last  man, 
to  resist  him,  and  not  to  believe  him  upon  any  terms  ; 
for  in  at  that  door  will  eome  our  danger  :  but  shall 
we  be  flattered  out  of  our  lives  ?  I  hope   you  know 
more  of  ihe  rudiments  of  politics  than  to  suffer  your- 
selves so  pitifuiiy  to  he  served. 

"  But  suppose  he  should,  if  he  get  tis  to  yields 
save  some  of  our  lives,  or  the  lives  of  some  of  them 
that  are  underlings  in  Mansoul,  what  help  will  that 
be  to  you  that  are  the  chief  of  the  town,  especially 
®f  you  whom  I  have  set  up,  and  whose  greatness  has 
4 


.38  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

been  procured  by  you  through  your  faithful  sticking 
„  to  me?     And   suppose  again,    that  he 

Lying  Ian-  should  give  quarter  to  every  one  of  you* 
guage.  be  sure  he  will  bring  you  into  that  bon- 

dage under  which  you  were  captivated 
before,  or  a   worse,  and  then  what  good  will  your 
lives  do  you  ?  Shall  you  with  him  live  in  pleasure  as 
you  do  now?  No,  no,  you  must  be  bound  by  laws 
that  will  pinch  you,  and  be  made   to  do  that  which 
at  present  is  hateful  to  you ;  I   am  for 
Me  is  afraid  you  if  you   are  for  me,   and  it  is  better 
4tf  losing  of  to  die  valiantly  than  to  live  like  pitiless 
Mansoul.      slaves.  But  I  say,  the  life  of  a  slave  will 
be  counted  too  good  for  Mansoul   now  : 
blood,  blood,  nothing  but  blood  is  in  every  blast  of 
Shaddai's  trumpet  against  poor  Mansoul  now;  pray 
be  concerned,  I  hear  he  is  a  coming  up,  and  stand  to 
your  arms,   that  now  while  you  have  any  leisure,  I 
may  learn  you  some  feats  of  war.     Araiour  for  you 
I  have,  and  by  me  it  is ;  yea,   and  it  is 
He       puts  sufficient  for  Mansoul  from  top  to  toe 
them    upon  nor  can  you  be  hurt  by  what  his  forces 
arming    of  can  do,  if  you  shall  keep  it  well  girt  and 
themselves,    fastened  about  you :  come  therefore  to 
my  castle  and  welcome,    and    harness 
yourselves   for   the  war.     There  is  helmet,  breast- 
plate, sword,  and  shield,  and  what  not,  that  will 
make  you  fight  like  men. 

First,  "  My  helmet,  otherwise  called 
JHis  hehnct.  an  head  piece,  is  hope  of  doing  well  at 
Dad.  29.  last,  what  lives  soever  you  live.  This 
19.  is  that  which  they   had,  who  said,  that 

they  should  have  peace,  though  they 
walked  in  the  wickedness  of  their  heart,  to  add 
drunkenness  to  thirst;  a  piece  of  approved  armour 
is  this,  and  whoever  has  it,  and  can  hold  it,  so  long 
no  arrow,  dart,  sword  or  shield  can  hurt  him;  this 
therefore  keep  on,  and  thou  wilt  keep  oif  many  a 
blow,  my  Mansoul. 

Second,  "  My  breast-plate  is  a  breast- 
His  breast-  plate  of  iron ;  I  had  it  forged  in  mine 
plate.  Rev.  own  country,  and  all  my   soldiers  are 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  39 

armed  therewith ;  in  plain  language,  it  9.  9. 
is  an  hard  heart,  an  heart  as  hard  as  iron, 
and  as  much  past  feeling  as  a  stone,  the  which  if  you 
get,  and  keep,  neither  mercy  shall  win  you,  nor 
judgment  fright  you.  This  therefore  is  a  piece  of 
armour,  most  necessary  for  all  to  put  on  that  hate 
Shaddai,  and  that  would  fight  against  him  under 
my  banner. 

Third,  "  My  sword  is  a  tongue  that  is 
set  on  Are  of  hell,  and  that  can  bend  it-  His  sword. 
self  to  speak  evil  of  Shaddai,  his  Son,  PsaLSl.  4. 
his   ways,  and   people;  use  this,  it  lias  Psal. "(34.  3. 
been  tried  a  thousand  times  twice  told,  James  S.. 
whoever  hath  it,  keeps  it,  and  makes 
that  use  of  it  as  I  would  have  him,  sail  never  be  con- 
quered by  mine  enemy. 

Fourth,  "My  shield  is  unbelief,  or 
calling  into  question  the  truth  of  the  His  shield. 
word,  oralf  the  sayings  that  speak  of  Job.  15.  26. 
the  judgment  that  Shaddai  has  appoint-  *Psal.  76.  3. 
ed  for  wicked  men,  use  this  shield,  ma-  Mat.  6.  5, 
ny  attempts  he  has  made  upon  it:  and  6. 
sometimes, 'tis  true,  it  has  been  bruised  : 
but  they  that  have  writ  of  the  wars  of  Emmanuel 
against  my  servants,  have  testified,  that  he  could  iio 
no  mighty  work  there,  because  of  their  unbelief; 
now  to  handle  this  weapon  of  mine  aright,  it  is  not 
to  believe  things  because  they  are  true,  of  what 
sort,  or  by  whomsoever  asserted  ;  if  lie  speaks  of 
judgment,  care  not  for  it;  if  he  speaks  oP  mercy, 
cere  not  for  it;  if  he  promises,  if  he  swears  that  be 
would  do  good  to  Mansoul,  If  it  turns  not  to  hurt, 
regard  not  what  is  said,  question  lhtk  truth  of  all, 
for  it  is  to  wield  the  shield  of  unbelief  aright,  and  as 
my  servants  ought  to  do  ;  and  he  that  doth  other- 
wise loves  me  not,  nor  do  I  count  him  but  an  enemy 
to  me. 

Fifth,  "  Another  part  or  piece,  said  Diabolus,  of 
mine  excellent  armour,  is  a  d;;mb  and  prayerlesg 
spirit,  a  spirit  that  scorns  to  cry  for  mercy;  where- 
fore be  you,  my  Mlmsoul,  sure  that  you  make  use 
of  this  :  What  \  cry  for  quarter,  never  do  that  if  you 


40  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

would  be  mine:  I  know  you  are  stout  men,  and  am 
sure  that  I  have  clad  you  with  that  which  is  armour 
of  proof,  wherefore  that  to  cry  to  Shaddai  for  mercy, 
let  that  be  far  from  you:  besides  all  this,  I  have  "a 
maul,  firebrands,  arrows  and  death,  all  good  hard 
weapons,  and  such  as  will  do  execution. 

After  he  had  thus  furnished  his  men  with  armour 

and  arms,  he  addressed  himself  to  them 
He  backs  in  such  like  words  as  these ;  Rernera- 
all  with  a  her,  quoth  he,  that  I  am  your  rightful 
speech  to  king,  and  that  you  have  taken  an  oath, 
them.  and  entered  into  covenant  to  be  true  to 

me  and  my  cause;  I  say  remember  this, 
and  shew  yourselves  stout  and  valiant  men  of  Man- 
soul.  Remember  also  the  kindness  that  I  have  al- 
ways shewed  to  you,  and  that  without  your  petition  : 
I  have  granted  to  you  external  things,  wherefore 
the  privileges,  grants,  immunities,  profits  and  hon- 
ours wherewith  I  have  endowed  you,  do  call  for,  at 
your  hands,  returns  of  loyalty,  my  lion  like  men  of 
Mansoul :  and  when  so  fit  a  time  to  shew  it,  as  when 
another  shall  seek  to  take  nay  domiaion  over  you 
into  their  hands  ?  One  word  more,  and  I  have  done  : 
Gan  we  but  stand  and  overcome  this  one  shock  or 
brunt,  I  doubt  not,  but,  in  little  time,  all  the  world 
will  be  ours ;  and  when  that  day  comes,  my  true 
hearts,  I  will  make  you  kings,  princes  and  captains, 
and  what  brave  days  we  shall  have  then.'' 

Diabolus  having  thus  armed  and  forenamed  his 
servants  and  vassals  in  MaBsoul,  against  their  good 
and  lawful  king  Shaddai ;  in  the  next  place  he  doub- 
leth  his  guards  at  the  gates  of  the  town,  and  he  takes 

himself  the  castle,  which  was  his  strong 
They  cf  hold  :  his  vassals  also,  to  shew  their  wills 
Mansoul  and  supposed  (but  ignoble)  gallantry, 
shew  their  exercise  themselves  in  their  arms  every 
loyally  to  day,  and  teach  one  another  feats  of  war; 
the  giant,      they   also  defied  their  enemies  and  sang 

up  the  praises  of  their  tyrant;  they 
threatened  also  what  men  tbey  would  be,  if  ever 
things  should  rise  so  high  as  war  between  Shaddai 
sied  their  king. 


£«E  HOLY  WA*.  41 

Now  all  this  time  the  good  King,  the 
faiig  Shaddai,  was  preparing  to  send  an  Shaddai 
army  to  recover  the  town  of  Mansoul  prepareth 
again  from  under  the  tyranny  of  their  an  army  f of 
pretended  king  Diabolus ;  but  he  thought  the    recovc- 
good,  at  first,  not  to  send  them  by   the  ry  of  Man* 
hiind  and  conduct  of  brave  Emmanuel  soul. 
his  son,  but  under  the   hand  of  some  of 
his  servants,  to  see  first,,  by  them,  the  The   words 
temper  of   Mansoul,   and   whether    by  of  God. 
them,  they  would  be  won  to  the  obedi- 
ence of  their  King.     The  army  consisted  of  above 
forty  thousand,  all  true  men  ;  for  they  came  from 
the  King's  own  court,  and  were  those  of  his  own 
chusing. 

They  came  up  to  Mansoul  under  the  conduct  of 
four  stout  generals,  each  man  being  a  captain  of  ten 
thousand  men,  and  these  are  their  names  and  their 
signs.     The  name  of  the  first  was  Boa- 
nerges, the  name  of  the  second  was  cap-  The  cap- 
tain Conviction,  the  name  of  the  third  tains 
was  captain  Judgment,   and  the    name  names. 
of  thefonrth   was    captain    Execution : 
these  were  the   captains  that   Shaddai  sent  to  re* 
gain  Mansoul. 

These  four  captains,  as  was  said  the  King  thought 
fit,  in  the  first  place,  to  send  to  Mansoul  to  make  an 
attempt  upon  it;  for  indeed  generally,  in  all  hid 
wars,  he  did  use  to  send  these  four  cap- 
tains in  the  van,  for  they  were  very  stout  Psal.  60.  4. 
and  rough  ''hewn  men  :  men  that  were 
fit  to  break  the  ice,  and  make  their  way  by  the  dint 
of  sword,  and  their  men  were  like  themselves. 

To  each  of  these  captains  the  King  gave  a  ban- 
ner, that  it  might  be  displayed,  because  of  the  good- 
ness of  his  cause,  and  because  of  the  right  that  he 
had  to  Mansoul. 

First,  to  captain  Boanerges,  for  he  was  the  chief; 
to  him,  I  say,  was  given  ten  thousand  men  ;  his  o«- 
sign  was  Mr.  Thunder,  he  bare  the  black 
colours,  and   his    escutcheon  was    the  MarkQ.ll. 
three  burning  thunder  bolts, 
4* 


42  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

The  second  captian   was  captain  Conviction,  to 

him   was  given  ten  thousand  men ;  his 

Dcut.     33.  ensign's  name  was  Mr.  Sorrow,  he  bare 

2.  the  pale  colours,  and  his  escutcheon  was 

the  book  of  the  law  wide  open,  from 

whence  issued  a  flame  of  fire. 

The  third  captain  was  captain  Judgment,  to  him 

was  given  ten  thousand  men  ;  his  en- 

Matth.  13.  sign's  name   was  Mr.  Terrour,   he  bare 

-40.  41.         red  colours,  and  his  escutcheon  was  a 

burning  fiery  furnace. 

The  fourth  captain  was  captain  Execution,  to  hint 

was  given  ten  thousand  men ;  his  ensign  was  one 

Mr.  Justice,  he  also  bare  the  red  colpurs,  and  his 

Mat  °  19    €SCU^RGOn  was  a  fruitless  tree,  with  an 

ane  laying  at  the-root  thereof. 

These  four  captains,  as  I  said,  and  every  one  •£ 
ihem,  under  his  command  ten  thousand  men,  all  of 
good  fidelity  to  the  Sing,  and  stout  at  their  military 
actions. 

Well,  the  captains  and  their  forces,  their  men  and 
iheir  under  officers,  being  had  upon  a  day,  by  Shad- 
dai,  into  the  field,  and  there  called  over  by  their 
names,  were  then  and  there  put  into  such  harness  as 
became  their  degree,  and  that  service  that  now  they 
were  going  about  for  the  King. 

Now  when  the  King  had  mustered  his  forces  (for 
it  is  he  that  mustereth  the  host  td  the  battle)  he 
gave  unto  the  captains  their  several  commissions, 
with  charges  and  commandment,  in  the  audience  of 
all  the  soldiers,  that  they  should  take  heed  faithful- 
Jy  and  courageously  to  do  and  execute  the  same. 
Their  commissions  were,  for  the  substance  of  them, 
the  same  in  form ;  though  as  to  name,  title,  place, 
and  degree  of  the  captains,  there  might  be  some, 
but  very  small  variation :  and  here  let  me  give  you 
an  account  of  the  matter  and  sum  contained  in  their 
commission. 

J  commission  from  the  great  Shaddai,  King  of  Man- 
soul,  to  his  trusty  and  noble  captain,  the  captain  Boa' 
nerges^Jor  making  war  upon  the  town  of  MansouL 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  43 

O !    Thou   Boanergeres :    one  of  my  Their  ccm- 
stout  and  thundering    captains,    over  mission.  Mai. 
one  ten   thousand  of  my   valiant  and  10.  11. 
faithful  servants;  go  thou,  in  my  name,  Luke  10.  5. 
with   this   my   force,   to    the  miserable 
town  of  Mansoul,  and   when  thou  comest  hitherto, 
offer  them  first  conditions  of  peace ;  and  command 
them,  that  casting  off  the  yoke  and  tyranny   of  the 
wicked   Diabolus,  they  return  to  me  their  rightful 
Prince  and  Lord  ;  command  them  also,  that  they 
cleanse  themselves  from  a!!  that  is  his  in  the  town 
of  Mansoul,  and  look    to    thyself  that   thou    hast 
good  satisfaction,   touching  the  truth  of  their  obe- 
dience.    Thus   when   thou   hast  commanded  them* 
if  they,  in  truth,  submit  thereto,  then  do  thou  to  the 
uttermost  of  the  power,  what  in  thee  lies,  to  set  up 
for  me  a  garrison  in  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul :  nor 
do  thou  hurt  the  least  native  that  moveth  or  brcath- 
eth  therein,  if  they  will  submit  themselves   to  me, 
but  treat  thou  such  as  if  tbey  were  thy  friend  or  broth- 
er, for  all  such  I  love,  and  they  shall  be 
dear  unto  me  ;  and  tell  them  that  I  will  1    Thes.  2. 
take  a  time  to  come  unto  them,  and  to  7,  8,  9,  10, 
let  them  know  that  I  am  merciful.  11. 

But  if  they  shall,  notwithstanding  the  summom 
and  the  producing  of  thy  authority,  4-esist,  stand  out 
against  thee  and  rebel ;  then  do  I  command  thee  to 
make  use  of  all  thy  cunning,  power,  might  and  force, 
to  bring  them  under  by  strength  of  hand.  Farewell. 
Thus  you  see  the  sum  of  their  commission,  for  as 
I  said  before,  for  the  substance  of  them,  they  were 
the  same  that  the  re«t  of  the  noble  captains  had. 

Wherefore  they  having  received  each- 
commander  his  authority  at  the  hand  of  They   pre- 
their  King :  the   day  being  appointed,  pare  for  a 
and  the   place  of  their  rendezvous  pre-  march. 
sixed.  each  commander  appeared  in  such 
gallantry,  as  his  cause  and  calling  required.     So  af* 
ter  a  new  entertainment  from  Shaddai,  with  flying 
colours,  they  set  forward  to  march  towards  the  fa- 
mous town  of  Mansoul ;  captain  Boanerges  led  the 
van:    captain   Conviction  and   captain  Judgment 


44  ME  HOLY  WAR. 

made   up  the   main  body,  aud  captain   Execution 
brought  up  (he  rear.    They  then  having 
Ejh.  £.  13.  a  great  way  to  go,  (for  the  town  of  Man- 
17.  soul  was  far  off  from  the  court  of  Shad- 

dai)  they  marched  through  the  regions 
and  countries  of  many  people,  not  hurting  or  abus- 
ing any,  but  blessing  wherever  they  came.  They 
also  lived  upon  the  King's  cost  in  all  the  way  they 
went. 

Having  travelled  thus  for  many  days,  at  last  they 
came  within  sight  of  Mausojl,  the  which  when  they 
saw,  the  captains  could  for  their  hearts  do  no  less 
than  for  a  while  bewail  the  condition  of  the  town  ; 
for  they  quickly  saw  how  that  it  was  prostrate  to  the 
will  of  Diabolus,  and  to  his  ways  and  designs. 

Well,  to  be  shorty  the  captains  came  up  before 
the  town,  march  up  to  Ear-gate,  sit  down  there,  for 
that  was  the  place  of  hearing:  so  when  they  had 
pitched  their  tents,  and  entrenched  themselves,  they 
addressed  themselves  to  make  their  assault. 

Now  the  townsfolk,  at  first,  behold- 
The  world  ing  so  gallant  a  company,  so  bravely  ac- 
are  conviu-  eoutred  and  so  excellently  disciplined, 
ccd  by  the  having  on  their  glittering  armour,  and 
9vM  order-  displaying  of  their  flying  colours,  could 
ed  life  $f  not  but  come  out  of  their  houses  aud 
the  godly,  gaze.  But  the  cunning  fox,  Diabolus, 
fearing  that  the  people,  after  this  sight, 
should  on  a  sudden  summons  open  the  gates  to  the 
captain,  came  down  with  all  haste  from  the  castle, 
and  made  them  retire  into  the  body  of  the  town, 
who  when  he  had  them  there  made  this  lying  and 
deceivable  speech  unto  them. 

"  Gentlemen^quoth  he,  although  you 
Diabohtis  are  my  truly  and  well  beloved  friends, 
alienates  yet  1  cannot  but  a  little  chide  you  for 
their  your  late  uncircumspect  action,  in  going 

minds  out  to  gaze  on  that  great   and    mighty 

frmn  them    force,    that  but  yesterday  sat  down  be- 
fore us,  and  have  now  entrenched  them- 
selves in  order  to  the  maintaining  of  a  siege  against 
the  famous  towa  of  Maasoul.     Do  you  know  who 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  45 

they  are  ?  whence    they   come  ?  and    what  is  their 
purpose,  in  sitting  down  before  the  town 
of  Mansoul  ?  they  are  they  of  whom  I  That's  false 
have  told  you  long  <igo,  that  they  would  Satan. 
come  to  destroy  this   town,  and  against 
whom  I  have  been  at  the  cost  to  arm  you  with  cap- 
a-pe  for  your  body,   besides  great  fortifications  for 
your  mind  ;  wherefore  .then  did  you  not  rather,  even 
at  the  first  appearance  of  them,  cry  out,  fire  the  bea- 
cons,  and   give  the  whole   town  an  alarm  concern- 
ing them,  that  we  might  all  have  been  in  a  posture 
of  defence  and  have  been  ready  to  have 
received  them  with  the  highest  acts  of  Satan 
defiance,   then    had  you   shewed  your-  greatly  a- 
selves  men  to    my    liking;  whereas,  by  fraid  of 
what  you  have   done,   you   have   made  God's  mi- 
me half  afraid,  I  say   half  afraid,    that  ?iisters, 
when  they  and  we  shall  ceme  to  push  that  they 
a  pike,  I  shall  find  you  want  courage  to  will    set 
stand  it   out  any    longer.      Wherefore  Mansoul 
have  I  commanded  a  watch,  and  that  you  against 
shall  double   your   guards  at  the  gates  !  him. 
Wherefore   have   endeavoured  to  make 
you  as  hard  as   iron,    and   your   hearts    as  a  piece 
of  the    nether  millstone  ?  Was  it,   think  you,  that 
you  might  shew   yourselves  women,   and  that  you 
might    go   out   like  a  company  of  inno- 
cents to  gaze  on  your   mortal  foes  ?  Fy,  He  stirs 
fy,    put   yourselves   in  a  posture  of  dc-  them  up  te 
fence,  beat  up  the  drum,  gather  togeth-  bid  defiance 
er  in  warlike  manner,  that  our  foes  may  to  the  min- 
know,  that  before  they  shall   conquer  isters  of  the 
this  corporation,   there  are  valiant  men  world. 
in  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

"  I  will  leave  off  now  to  chide,  and  w  ill  not  fur- 
ther rebuke  you  ;  but  I  charge  you  that  hencefor- 
wards  you  let  me  see  no  more  such  actions.  Let 
not  henceforward  a  man  of  you,  without  order  ob- 
tained from  me,  so  much  as  shew  his  head  over  the 
wall  of  the  town  of  Mansoul;  you  have  now  heard 
me,  do  as  I  have  commanded,  and  you  shall  cause 
me  that  1  dwell   securely   with  you,  and  that  as  I 


46  THE,  HOLY  WAR. 

take  care  for  myself,  so  for  your  safety  and  honour 
also.     Farewell." 

Now  Mere  the  townsmen  strangely 
When  sin-  altered;  they  were  as  men  stricken 
ners  heark-  with  a  panic  fear;  they  ran  to  and  fro 
en  to  Sa-  through  the  streets  of  the  town  of  Man- 
tan  they  Mansoul,  crying  out,  Help,  help.  The 
are  set  in  men  that  turn  the  world  upside  down 
a  rage  a-  are  come  hither*also ;  nor  could  any  of 
gainst  god-  them  be  quiet  after,  but  still  as  men  be- 
liness*  reft  of  wit,  they    cried  out,  the  destroy- 

ers of  our  peace  and  people  are  come. 
This  went  down  with  Diabohis.  "Ay  !  quoth  he 
to  himself,  this  I  like  well,  now  it  is  as  I  would 
have  it;  now  you  show  your  obedience  to  your 
prince  ;  hold  you  but  here,  and  then  let  them  take 
the  town  if  they  can. 

Well,  beforethe  kingV  forces  had  sat 
The  Kiyig's  before  Mansoul  three  days,  captain  Bo- 
trumpet  anerges  commanded  his  trumpeter  to  go 
sounded  down  to  Ear-gate,  and  there  in  the  name 
at  Ear-  of  the  great  Shaddai,  to  summon  Man- 
gale.  soul  to  give    audience  to  the  message, 

that  he  in  his  master's  name,  was  to  them 
commanded  to  deliver.  So  the  trumpeter,  whose 
name  was  Take-heed  what  you  hear,  went  up,  as  he 
*was  commanded,  to  Ear-gate,  and  there  sounded  his 
trumpet  for  a  hearing,  but  there  was 
They  will  none  that  appeared  that  gave  answer  or 
not  hear.  regard,  for  so  had  Diabohis  commanded. 
So  the  trumpeter  returned  to  his  captain 
and  told  him  what  he  had  done,  and  also  how  he  had 
eped  ;  whereat  the  CRfrtaia  was  grieved,  but  bade 
the  trumpeter  go  to  his  Uni. 

Again  captain  Boanerges  sendeth  his 
A  secend  trumpeter  to  Ear-gate  to  sound  as  he- 
summons  fore  an  hearing  j  hut  they  again  kept 
repulsed,  close,  came  not  out,  nor  would  they 
give  him  an  answer,  so  obecrvant  were 
they  of  the  command  of  Diaiokis  their  King. 

;<  [he  e:q;jfikis  arid  other  field  of- 
4  council    neers  caiieti  a  couucil  of  war,  to  consider. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  47 

what   further   was   to  be  done,   for  the  of  war. 
gaining  of  the  town  of  MansonI,  and  af- 
ter some  close  thorough  debate,  upon  the  contents  of 
their  commissions,  they  concluded  yet  to  give  to  the 
town,    by    the    hand  of  the   forewarned    trumpeter, 
another   summons  to  hear;   but  .if  that    shall  be  re- 
fused, said   they,  and  (hat   the  town    shaii  stand   it 
out.  still,  then  they   determined,  and  bid 
the  trumpeter,   tell  them   so,  that   they  T&kel4923» 
would  endeavour,  by  what  means  they 
could,  to  compel  them  by  force  to  the  obedience  of 
their  king. 

So  captain  Boanerges  commanded  his  trumpeter 
to  go  up   to  Ear-gate   again,   and  hi  the 
Rftme  of  the  great   Shaddav  to  give  it  a  A    third 
very  loud  summons  to  come  down,  with-  summons. 
out  delay  to  Ear-gate,    there  to  give  au- 
dience to  the  King's  most  noble  captains.     So  the 
trumpeter  weift,  and  did  as  he  was  eammanded;  he 
went  up  to   Ear-gate  and  sounded   his  trumpet,  a  ad 
gave  a  third   summons  to  Mausoul  ;  he 
said  moreover,    that  if   tirs  they  should  Isa.   58.  4. 
still    refuse    to  do,  the  captains  of  the 
Prince  would    with  might,  come   down  upon  them, 
and  endeavour  to  reduce  them  to  their  obedience 
by  force. 

Then  stood  up  lord  Wilbewill,  who  Lord  Wil- 
was  governor  of  the  town  (this  Willbe-  iviW&speech 
will  was  that  apostate  of  whom  mention  to  the  trum- 
was  made  before)  and  the  keeper  of  the  peter. 
gates  of  Mansoul.  He  therefore,  with 
big  and  ruffling  words  demanded  of  the  trumpeter, 
who  he  was  ?  whence  he  came  2  and  what  was  the 
cause  of  his  making  so  hideous  a  noise  at , the  gate, 
and  speaking  such  insufferable  words  against  the 
town  of  Mansoui  ? 

The    trumpeter    answered,    "  I  am  The  irum- 
servant  to   the  most  noble  captain,  cap-  peter. 
tain  Boanerges,   general  of  the  forces  of 
the  great  King  Shaddai,  against  whom  both  thyself 
with  the  whole  town    of  Mansoul  have  rebelled,  and 
lift  up  the  heel ;  and  my  master,  the  cupiain,  hath 


45  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

a  special  message  to  this  town,  and  to  thee  as  a 
member  thereof;  the  which  if  you  of  Mansoul  shall 
peaceably  hear,  so;  and  if  not,  must  take  what 
follows." 

Then  said  the   lord  Wiilbewill,  "  I 
WiUbewilL.  will  carry  any  words  to  my  lord,   and 

will  know  what  he  will  say." 
The  trum-         But  the    trumpeter  soon  replied,  say- 
peter.  ing,   "  Our   message  is  not  to  the  giant 

Didbolus,  but  to  the  miserable  town  ®f 
Mansoul ;  nor  shall  we  at  all  regard  what  answer 
by  him  is  made,  nor  yet  by  any  from  him.  We 
are  sent  to  this  town,  to  recover  it  from  under  his 
cruel  tyranny,  and  to  persuade  it  to  iubmit,  as  in 
former  times  it  did,  to  the  most  excellent  Kin^ 
Shaddai." 

WtilbewiU.      .pTen   said  the  *ordfl  *»»»?&  "  l 
will  do  your  errand  to  the  town. 

The  truirtr  The  trumpeter  then  replied,  "  Sir, 
peter.  do  not  deceive  us,   lest,   in  so  doing, 

you  deceive  yourselves  niuch  more. 
He  added  moreover,  for  we  are  resolved,  if  in  peace- 
able manner  you  do  not  submit  yourselves,  then  to 
make  war  upon  you,  and  bring  you  under  by  force. 
And  of  the  truth  of  what  I  say,  this  shall  be  a  sign 
unto  you,  you  shall  see  the  black  flag,  with  its  hot 
burning  thunderbolts,  set  upon  the  mount  to-mor- 
row, as  a  token  of  defiance  against  your  prince, 
tmd  of  our  resolutions  to  reduce  you  to  our  Lord 
and  rightful  King." 
rp  .  So  the  said  lord  Wiilbewill  returned 

.     "P-  *       from  off  the  wall,    and    the    trumpeter 
returns  to  .   .     ,,  «,--,        .,     { 

.7  came  into  the  camp.     When  the  trum- 

P*  peter  was  come  into  the  camp,  the  cap- 
tains and  officers  of  the  mighty  King  Shaddai  came 
together  to  know  if  he  had  obtained  a  hearing, 
and  what  was  the  effect  of  his  errand  :  so  the  trum- 
peter told,  saying,  "  When  I  had  sounded  my  trum- 
pet, and  hud  called  aloud  to  the  town  for  a  hearing ; 
«iy  lord  Wiilbewill  (the  governc  of  the  town)  and 
he  that  hath  charge  of  the  gat^r  *  me  up  when  he 
heard  me  sound,  and  looking  ove*  the  wail  he  aaked 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  49 

me  what  I  was  ?  whence   I  came?  and  Carnal  souls 
what  was   the  c\use  of  my  making;  this  make  a 

noise  ?  So  I  told  my  errand,  and  by  wrong  in- 
whose  authority  I  brought  it.  Then, ierpretation 
<said  he,  I  will  teli  it  to  the  governor  and  ofihe&sign 
to  Mansoul;  and  then  I  returned  to  my  of  a  gospel 
3ords."  Then  said  the  brave  Boaner-  ministry. 
ges,  "  Let  us  yet  for  a  while  lie  still  in 
eur  trenches,  and  see  what  these  rebels  will  do." 
JsTow  when  the  time  drew  nigh,  that  audience,  by 
Mansoul,  must  be  given  to  the  brave  Boanerges  and 
his  companions,  it  was  commanded  that  all  the  men 
ef  war  throughout  the  whole  camp  of  Shaddai, 
should  as  one  man  stand  to  their  arms,  and  make 
themselves  ready,  if  the  town  of  Mansoul  shall  hear, 
to  receive  it  forthwith  to  mercy ;  but  if  not  to 
force  a  eubject'on.  So  the  time  being  come,  the 
trumpeter  sounded,  and  that  throughout  the  whole 
camp,  that  the  men  of  war  might  be  in  readiness 
for  that  which  then  should  be  the  work  of  the  day. 
But  when  they  that  were  in  the  town  of  Mansoul 
heard  the  sound  of  the  trumpets  throughout  the 
camp  of  Shaddai,  and  thinking  no  other,  but  that 
it  must  be  in  order  to  storming  the  corporation ; 
ihey,  at  first,  were  put  to  great  con- 
sternation of  spirit;  but  after  they  a  Zech.T.M. 
little  were  settled  again,  they  also  made 
what  preparations  they  could  for  a  war,  if  they  did 
gtorra,  else  to  seeure  themselves. 

Well,  when  the  utmost  time  was 
eome,    Boanerges   was    resolved  to  Boanerges     re- 
he  r  their   answer.     Wherefore  he  fuses  to  make  In- 
§e«t    ©lit    Eras    trumpeter   again,   to  credulity  ajuJge 
summon    Mansoul    to  a    hearing  of  cf  wliai  hd  liad 
*  tfie  message  that  they  had  brought  to  deliver  o  the 
from    Shaddai,     so  he  went   and  famous  town   of 
sounded,  and  the   townsmen  came  Mansoul. 
up,  but  made  Ear-gate  as  secure  as 
they  could.     Now  when  they  were  come  up  to  the 
top  of  the   wall,   captain    Boanerges  desired  to  sec 
the  lord  mayor,   but  my    lord   Incredulity  was  then 
lord  mayor,   for  he  came   in  the  room  of  my  lord 
5 


so  ™e  holy  war. 

Lustings.  So  Incredulity  he  came  up  and  shewed 
himself  over  the  wall,  but  when  the  captain  Bo- 
anerges had  set  his  eyes  upon  him,  he  cried  out 
aloud,  "  This  is  not  he,%  where  is  my  lord  Under- 
standing, the  ancient  lord  mayor  of  the  town  of  Man- 
soul,  for  to  him  I  would  deliver  my  message  ?" 

Then  said  the  giant  (for  Diabolus  was  also  come 
down)  to  the  captain,  *'  Mr.  Captain,  you  have,  by 
your  boldness,  given  to  Mansoul,  at  least  some  sum- 
monses to  subject  herself  to  your  King  ;  by  whose 
authority  I  know  not,  nor  will  I  dispute  that  now. 
I  ask  therefore  what  is  the  reason  of  all  this  auo 
or  what  would  you  be  at  if  you  knew  yourselves  V 

Then  captain  Boanerges,  whose  was 
Boanerges  the  black  colours,  and  whose  escutcheon 
obtained  a  was  three  burning  thunderbolts  (taking 
heajing.       no  notice  of  the  giant  or  of  his  speech) 

thus  addressed  himself  to  the  town  of 
His  speech,  Mansoul :  "  Be  it   known   unto   you,  O 

unhappy  and  rebellious  Mansoul !  That 
the  most  gracious  King,  the  great  King  Shaddai, 
my  master,  hath  sent  me  unto  you  with  a  commis- 
sion (and  he  shewed  to  the  town  his  broad  seal)  to 
reduce  you  to  his  obedience.  And  he  hath  com- 
manded me,  in  case  you  yield  upon  my  summons, 
to  carry  it  to  you  as  if  you  were  my  friends  and 
brethren;  but  he  hath  also  bid,  that  if  after  sum- 
mons to  submit,  you  still  stand  out  and  rebel,  we 
should  endeavour  to  take  you  by  force." 

Then  stood  forth  captain  Conviction, 
Speech  of  and  said  (his  was  the  pale  colours,  and 
Cq,pt.  Con-  for  an  escutcheon  he  had  the  hook  of 
victionRm.  the  law7  wide  open,  &c.)  "Hear,  O 
3.10,11, 18.  Mansoul!  thou,  O  Mansoul,  was  once 
13,14,15,16  famous  for  innocency,  but  now  thou  art 
17,1 8,1 9,23  degenerated  into  lies  and  deceit :  thou 
CA.16,17,18  hast  heard  what  my  brother  the  captain 
Psa0  50.  Boanerges  hath  said,  and  it  is  your  wis- 
21.  22.  dom,  and   will    be   your   happiness   to 

stoop  to,  and  accept  of  conditions  of 
peace  and  mercy  when  offered,  especially  when  of- 
fered by  one  against  whom  thou  hast  rebelled,  and 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  31 

fcne  who  is  of  power  to  tear  thee  in  pieces,  for  so  is 
Shaddai  our  King ;  nor  when  lie  is  angry,  can  any 
thing  stand  before  feijn.  If  you  say  you  have  not 
sinned,  or  acted  rebellious  against  our  King,  the 
whole  of  your  doings  since  the  days  that  you  cast  off 
his  service  (and  there  was  the  beginning  of  your  sin) 
will  sufficiently  testify  against  you.  What  else  means 
your  hearkening  to  the  tyrant,  and  your  receiving 
him  for  your  king  ?  What  means  else  your  rejecting 
the  laws  of  Shaddai,  and  your  obeying  of  Diabolua  ? 
Yea,  what  means  thus  your  taking  up  of  arms  against 
and  the  shutting  of  your  gates  upon  us  the  faithful 
servants  of  your  King  ?  Be  ruled  then, 
and  accept  of  my  brothers  invitation,  Luke  12. 
and  oversiand  not  the  time  of  mercy,  58.  59. 
but  agree  with  thine  adversary  quickly. 
Ah,  Mansoul !  suffer  not  thyself  to  be  kept  from  mer- 
cy, and  to  be  run  into  a  thousand  miseries  by  the 
flattering  wiles  of  Diabolus:  Perhaps  that  piece  of 
deceit  may  attempt  to  make  you  believe  that  we 
seek  our  own  profit  in  this  our  service,  but  know, 
His  obedience  to  QU£  King,  and  love  to  your  happi- 
ness, that  is  the  cause  of  this  undertaking  of  ours. 

"  Again,  [  say    to  thee,  O    Mansoul  ! 
consider  if  it  be  not  amazing  grace,  that  2  Cor.  5. 
Shaddai  should  so  humble  himsejf  as  he   18,  17,  20, 
doth  ;  now  he,  by   us,   reasons  with  you  2. 
in  a  way  of  intreaty   and  sweet  persua- 
sion, that  you  would  subject  yourselves  to  him.  Has 
he  that   need  of  you,  that  we   are  sure  you  have  of 
him  I  No,  no,  but  he  is    merciful,  and  will  not  that 
Mansoul  should  die,  but  turn  to  him  and  live.* 

Then  stood  forth  captain   Judgment, 
whose  was  the    red  colours,   and   for  an  Captain 
escutcheon  he  had  the  burning  fiery  fur-  Judgment 
nace:  and   he   said,   "  O  ye  the    inhabi-  hh •speech 
ftaats  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  that  have  tuManscuL 
lived  so  long  in  rebellion  and  acts  of  1  red- 
sou  against  the  King  Shaddai,  know  that  we  come 
not  to  day,   to  this  place,  in  this  manner,  with  our 
message  of  our  own    minds,  or  to  revenge  our  own 
quarrel,  it  is  the  Kin-,  my  master,  that  Lath  sent  us 


52  ^«E  HOLY  WAR. 

to  reduce  yen  to  your  obedience  to  him,  the  "which  if 
you  refuse  in  a  peaceable  way  to  yield,  we  have 
commission  to  compel  you  thereto.  And  never  think 
of  yourselves,  nor  yet  suffer  the  tyrant  Diabolus  to 
persuade  you  to  think,  that  our  King,  by  his  power, 
is  not  able  to  bring  you  down,  and  to  lay  you  under 
hig  feet,  for  he  is  the  former  of  all  things,  and  if  he 
touches  the  mountains  they  smoke.  Nor  will  the 
gate  of  the  King's  clemency  stand  always  open,  for 
the  day  that  shall  burn  like  an  oven  is  before  him, 
yea,  it  hasteth  greatly,  it  siumbereth  not. 

M  O  Mansoul  !  is  it  little  in  thine  eyes 
Mel  4.  1.  that  our  King  doth  offer  thee  mercy,  and 
2  Pet.  2.3.  that  afier  so  many  provocations?  Yea, 

he  still  holdeth  out  the  golden  sceptre  to 
thee,  and  will  not  yet  suffer  his  gate  to  be  shut  against 
thee  ;  wilt  thou  provoke  him  to  do  it  ?  If  so,  consid- 
er of  what  I  say.  To  thee  it  is  opened 
Job.  36, 14.  no  more  for  ever.  If  thou  sayest  tho* 
Ch.  36, 18.  shall  not  see  him,  yet  judgment  is  before 

him,  therefore  trust  thou  in  him  ;  Yea, 
because  there  i3  wrath,  beware  lest  he  take  thee 
away  with  his  stroke;  then  a  great   ransom  cannot 

deliver  thee.  Will  he  esteem  thy  riches? 
Psal.  9.  7.  No,  not  gold,  nor  all  the  forces  of 
Isa.  G6.  15.  strength.     He  hath  prepared  his  throne 

for  judgment,  for  he  will  come  with  fire, 
and  with  his  chariot  like  a  whirlwind,  to  render  his 
anger  with  fury,  and  his  rebukes  with  flames  of  fire. 
Therefore,  O  Mansoul,  take  heed,  lest  after  thou 
hast  fulfilled  the  judgment  of  the  wicked,  that  Judg- 
ment should  take  hold  of  thee."  Now  while  captain 
Judgment  was  making  of  this  oration  to  the  town  of 
Mansoul,  it  was  observed  by  some,  that  Diabolus 
trembled  :  But  he  proceeded  in  this  parable,  and 
said,  "  O  thou  woful   town  of  Mansoul!  Wilt  thou 

not  yet  set  open  thy  gate  to  receive  us, 
Ezek.  22.  the  deputies  of  thy  King,  and  those  that 
14.  would  rejoice  to  see  thee  live  ?  Can  thine 

heart  endure,  or  can  thy  hands  be  strong 
in  the  day  that  he  shall  deal  in  judgment  with  thee  : 
I  say,  canst  thou  endure  to  be  forced  to  drink,  as 


i&HE  HOLY  WAll.  53 

ane  would  drink  sweet  wine,  the  sea  of  wrath  that 
our  King  hath  prepared  for  Diabolus  and  his  an- 
gels ?  Consider  betimes,  consider. 

Then  stood  forth  the  fourth  captain, 
the  noble  captain   Execution,   and  said,  The  speech 
"  O   town   of  Mansoul !    once   famous,  of   captain 
but  now  like  the  fruitless  bough ;  once  Execution. 
the  delight  of  the  higli    ones,  but  now  a 
den  for  Diabolus:  Hearken  also  to  me,  and  to  the 
words  that  I  shall  speak  to  thee  in  the  name  of  the 
great  Shaddai.  Behold  the  axe  is  laid  to 
the  root  of  the   tree,   every   tree  there-  Mat.  3,  7, 
fore,  that  bringeth    forth  not  good  fruit,  8,  9,  10. 
is  hewn  down  and  cast  into  the  fire. 

"  Thou,  O  town  of  Mansoul !  hast  hitherto  been 
this  fruitless  tree,  thou  barest  nought  but  thorns  and 
briars.  Thy  evil  fruit  fore-bespeaks  thee 
not  to  be  a  good  tree:  Thy  grapes  are  Deut.  32. 
grapes  of  gall,  thy  clusters  are  bitter.  32. 
Thou  hast  rebelled  against  thy  King,  and 
lo,  we  the  power  and  force  of  Shaddai,  are  the  axe 
that  is  laid  to  the  roots  :  what  say  est  thou,  wilt  thou 
turn  ?  I  say  again,  tell  me  before  the  first  blow  is  gi- 
ven, wilt  thou  turn  ?  our  axe  must  first  be  laid  to  thy 
root,  before  it  be  laid  at  thy  root;  it  must  first  be 
laid  to  thy  root  in  a  way  of  threatening,  before  it 
be  laid  at  thy  root  by  way  of  execution ;  and  be- 
tween these  two  is  required  thy  repentance,  and 
this  is  all  the  time  that  thou  hast.  What  wilt  thou 
do  !  wilt  thou  turn  ?  or  shall  I  smite  ?  If  I  fetch  my 
blow,  Mansoul,  down  you  go  :  for  1  have  commission, 
to  lay  my  axe  at,  as  well  as  to  thy  root,  nor  will 
any  thing,  but  yielding  to  our  King,  prevent  'bing 
of  execution.  What  art  thou  fit  for,  O  Mansoul,  if 
mercy  preventeth  not,  but  to  be  hewn  down,  anct 
east  into  the  fire  and  burned  ? 

"  O  Mansoul !  patience  and  forbearance   do  not 
act  for   ever :  a  year  or   two,  or  three,  they  may ; 
but  if  thou  provoke,   by  a  three  years  rebellion*  and 
thou  hast  already  done  more  than  this  : 
then  what   follows,    but   cut   it   down;  Luke  13. 
cay,  after  that  thou  shalt  cut  it  down. 
5* 


£4 


tffflS  KOLY  tTAft. 


And  dost  Iboto  th?nk  that  these  are  but  threaten* 
ings,  or  that  out  Kino;  has  not  power  to  execute  his 
words?  O  Mansoul!  thou  wilt  find  that  in  the 
words  of  our  King,  when  they  are  by  sinners  made 
little  or  light  of,  there  is  not  only  threatening  but 
burning  coals  of  fire. 

"  Thou  hast  been  acumbered  ground  long  already, 
and  wilt  thou  continue  so  still  ?  thy  sin  h^g  brourht 
Ibis  army  to  thy  walls,  and  shall  bring  it  in  Judg- 
ment to  do  execution  into  thy  town  ?  Thou  hast 
heard  what  the  captains  have  said,  but  as  yet  thou 
shuttest  thy  gates  ;  speak  out  Mansoul,  wilt  thou  do 
30  still,  or  wilt  thou  accept  of  conditions  of  peace." 

Those  brave  speeches  of  these  four  noble  captains, 
the  town  of  Mansoul  refused  to  hear ;  yet  a  sound 
thereof  did  beat  against  Ear-gate,  though  the  force 
thereof  could  not  break  it  open.  In  fine, 
the  town  desired  a  time  to  prepare  their 
answer  to  these  demands.  The  captains 
then  told  them,  "  That  if  they  would 
throw  out  to  them  one  Ill-pause,  that 
was  in  the  town,  that  they  might  reward 
him  according  to  his  works,  that  they 
would  give  them  time  to  consider ;  but 
if  they  would  not  cast  him  to  them  over 
the  wall  of  Mansoul,  then  they  would 
give  them  none :  for,  said  they,  we 
know  that  so  long  as  Ill-pause  draws 
breath  in  Mansoul,  all  good  consideration 
will  be  confounded,  and  nothing  but  mischief  will 
come  thereon. 

Then  Diabolus,  who  was  there  pre- 
sent being  loth  to  lose  his  Ill-pause,  be- 
cause he  was  his  orator  (and  yet  certain- 
ly had,  could  the  captains  have  laid  their 
fingers  on  him)  was  reselved  at  this  in- 
stant to  give  the  answer  by  himself,  but 
then  changing  his  mind,  he  commanded 
the  then  lord  mayor,  the  lord  Incredu- 
lity to  do  it,  saying,  "  My  lord,  do  you 
give  the  runagates  an  answer,  and  speak  but  that 
I lansouj  may  bear  and  understand  you." 


Mansoul 
desires 
them  to 
make  ans* 
wer  upon 
what  con- 
ditions the 
captains 
would 
give  them 
time. 


Diabolus 
interrupts 
them,  and 
sets  incre- 
dulity U 
answer 
them. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  55 

So  Incredulity,  at  Diabolus's  command.  His  speech. 
began  and  said,  "Gentlemen,  you  have 
here,  as  we  do  behold,  to  the  disturbance  of  our 
prince,  and  the  molestation  of  the  town  of  Mansoul, 
camped  against  it:  but  from  whence  you  come  we 
will  not  know;  or  what  you  are,  we  will  not  be- 
lieve. Indeed  you  tell  us.  in  your  terrible  speech, 
that  you  have  this  authority  from  Shaddai,  but  by 
what  right  he  commands  you  to  do  it,  of  that  we 
shall  yet  be  ignorant. 

"  You  have  also  by  the  authority  aforesaid,  sum- 
moned this  town  to  desert  her  lord,  and,  for  pro- 
tection, to  yield  up  herself  to  the  great  Shaddai  your 
King;  flatteringly  telling  her,  that  if  she  will  do  it, 
he  will  pass  by  and  not  charge  her  with  past  offences. 

"  Further,  you  have  also,  to  the  terror  of  the  town 
of  Mansoul,  threatened,  with  great  and  sore  destruc- 
tions, to  punish  this  corporation,  if  she  consents  not 
to  do  as  your  wills  would  have  her. 

"  Now  captains,  from  whencesoever  The  true 
you  come,  and  though  your  designs  be  picture  of 
never  so  right,  yet  know  ye,  that  nei-  unbelief. 
ther  my  lord  Diabolus,  nor  I,  his  ser- 
vant Incredulity,  nor  yet  our  brave  Mansoul,  doth 
regard  either  your  persons,  message,  or  the  King 
that  you  say  hath  sent  you  ;  his  power,  his  greatness, 
his  vengeance  we  fear  not,  nor  wilt  we  yield  at  all 
to  your  summons. 

"  As  for  the  war  that  you  threaten  to  make  upon 
us,  we  must  therein  defend  ourselves  as  well  as  we 
can ;  and  know  ye,  that  we  are  not  without  where- 
withal to  bid  defiance  to  you.  And,  in  short,  for  I 
will  not  be  tedious,  I  tell  you  that  we  take  you  to  be 
some  vagabond  runagate  crew,  that,  having  shaken 
off  all  obedience  to  your  king,  having  gotten  togeth- 
er in  a  tumultuous  manner,  and  are  ranging  from 
place  to  place,  to  see,  if  through  the  flatteries  you 
are  skilled  to  make  on  the  one  side,  and  threaw 
win  rewith  you  think  to  fright  on  the  other,  to  make 
some  silly  town,  city  or  country  to  desert  their  place, 
and  leave  it  to  you  :  hut  Mansoul  is  none  of  them. 

"  To  conclude,  we  dread  ^ou  not,  we  fear  you  nor. 


&  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

nor  will  w©  obey  your  summons  ;  our  gates  we  keep 
shut  upon  you,  our  place  we  will  keep  you  out  of; 
nor  will  we  long  thus  suffer  you  to  sit  down  before 
us.  Our  people  must  live  in  quiet ;  vour 
Lukt  11.  appearance  doth  disturb  them,  whcre- 
21.  fore  arise,  with  bag  and  baggage,  and 

§  Flesh.        begone,  or  we  will  let  fly  from  the  walls 
against  you. 
This  oration  made  by  old  Incredulity,  was  second- 
ed by  desperate  Willbewill,  in  words  to 
The  speech  this  effect,  "  Gentlemen,  we  have  heard 
ef  the  lord  your  demand?,  and  the   noise   of  your 
Willbewill.  threats,  and  have   heard  the   sound    of 
your  summons,  but  we   fear    not   your 
force,  we  regard. not  your  threats,  but  will  still  abide 
as  you  found  us.  And  we  command  you  that  in  three 
days  time  you  cease  to  appear  in  these  parts,  or  you 
shall  know  what  it  is,  once  to  dare  oiler  to  rouse  the 
lion  Diabolus,  when  asleep  in  the  town  of  Mansoul.*5 
™  j        The    Recorder,     whose    name    was 

eJ?o  .  Forget-good,  he  also  addeth  as  foilow- 
'  .  t  a  ,-"  eth  :  "  Gentlemen,  my  lords,  as  you  see, 
Sooi  '"  have   with  mild  and  gentle  words,  an- 

CfSYIlfT 

swered  your  rough  and  angry  speeches  : 
they  have,  moreover,  in  my  hearing,  given  you  leave 
quietly  to  depart  as  you  came;  wherefore  take  their 
kindness  and  be  gone  :  we  might  have  come  out 
with  furce  upon  you,  and  have  caused  you  to  feel 
the  dint  of  our  swords  ;  but  as  we  love  eaae  and  quiet 
ourselves,  so  we  love  not  to  hurt  or  molest  others  " 
Then  did  (he  town  of  Man  soul  shout  for 
The  town  joy,  as  if,  by  Diabolus  and  his  crew,  some 
resolved  to  great  advantage  had  been  gotten  of  the 
withstand  captains.  They  also  rang  the  bells  and 
the  captains  made  merry,  and  danced  upon  the  wails. 
Diabolus  also  returned  to  the  castle, 
and  the  lord  Mayor  and  Recorder  to  their  place; 
bit  the  lord  Willbewill  took  special  care  that  the 
gates  should  be  secured  with  double  guards,  double 
bolts,  and  double  locks  and  bars:  and  that  Ear-gate 
especially,  might  the  better  be  looked  to,  for  that 
was  the  $ate  ia  at  which  the  King's  forces  sought 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  £7 

fiiost  to  enter,  the  lord  Willbewill  made 
old  Mr.  Prejudice  (an  angry  aad  ill  con-  The     band 
ditioaed  old  fellow)  captain  of  the  ward  of  deaf  men, 
at  the  gate,  and  put  under  his  paw  er  six-  set  to  keep 
ty  men,  called  Deaf-men  ;    men  advan-  Ear-gate. 
tageotis  for  that  service,  for  as  much  as 
tbey  mattered  no  words  of  the  captains, 
nor  of  the  soldiers.  The      cap- 

Now  when  the  captains  saw  the  an-  tainsresdve 
»wer  of  the  great  ones,   and  that  they  to  give  them 
could  not  get  an  hearing  from  the  old  battle. 
natives  of  the  town,  awd   that  Mansoul 
was  resolved  to  give  tke  King's   army  battle  :  they 
prepared  themselves  to  receive  them,  and  to  try  it 
out  by    the   power  of  arm.       At  first  they    made 
their  force  more  formidable  against  Ear-gate;  for 
they  knew,  that  unless  they   could  penetrate  that* 
no  good  could  be  done  upon  the  town.     This  done, 
they  put  the  rest  of  their  men  in  their  places ;  after 
which  they  gave  out  the  wotd,  which 
was,  "  Ye  must  be  born  again.*     Then  The    battle 
they  sounded  the  trumpet,  when  they  in  begun. 
the  town  made  them  answer,  with  shout 
against  shout,  charge  against  charge,  and  so  the  bat- 
tle began. 

Now  they  in  the  town  had  planted 
upon  the  tower  over  Ear-gate,  two  great  The  guns 
guue,  the  one  called  High-miad,  and  the  planted  up- 
other  Heady,  Upon  these  two  guns  on  Ear- 
they  trusted  much,  they  were  cast  in  gate. 
the  castle  by  Diabolus's  founder,  whose 
name  was  Mr.  Puff-up,  and  mischievous  pieces  they 
were,  but  so  vigilant  and  watchful,  when  the  cap- 
tains saw  them,  were  they,  that  though  sometimes 
their  shot  would  go  by  their  ears  with  a  whiz,  yet 
they  did  them  no  harm.  By  these  two  guns  the 
townsfolk  made  no  question  but  greatly  to  annoy  the 
camp  of  Shaddai,  and  well  enough  to  secure  the 
gate,  but  they  had  not  much  cause  to  boast  ef  what 
execution  they  did,  as  by  what  follows  will  be  gath- 
ered. 

The  famous  Mansoul  had  also  some  other  umafi 


S*  THE  HOLY  WAP.. 

pieces  in  it,  of  the  which  they  made  use  against  thfc 
camp  of  Shaddai. 

They  from  the  camp  also  did  as  stoutly,  and  rvith 
as  much  of  that  as  may,  in  truth,  be  called  valour, 
let  fly  as  fast  as  the  town,  and  at  Ear-gate ;  for  they 
saw,  that  unless  they  could  break  open 
The  sen-  Ear-gate,  'twould  be  but  in  vain  to  bat- 
tel*? and  ter  the  wall.  Now  the  King's  captains 
power  of  had  brought  with  them  several  slings, 
the  word,  and  two  or  three  battering  rams ;  with 
their  slings  therefore  they  battered  the 
houses  and  people  of  the  town,  and  with  their  rams 
they  sought  to  break  Ear-gate. 

The  camp  and  the  town  had  several  skirmishes 
and  brisk  encounters,  while  the  captains  with  their 
engines,  made  many  brave  attempts  to  break  open 
or  beat  down  the  tower  that  was  over 
The  town  Ear-gate,  and  at  the  said  gate  to  m  ;ke 
stoutly  their  entrance  ;  but  Mansou!  stood  ic  out 

stands  out.  so  lustily,  through  the  rage  of  Diabolus, 
the  valour  of  the  lord  Willbewill,  and 
the  conduct  of  old  Incredulity  the  mayor,  and  Mr. 
Forget-good  the  recorder ;  that  the  charge  and  ex- 
pense of  that  summer's  war,  on  the  King's  side,  seem- 
ed to  be  almost  quite  lost,  and  the  advantage  to  re- 
turn to  Mansoul:  but  when  the  cap- 
The  cap-  tains  saw  how  it  was,  they  made  a  faiF 
tains  re-  retreat,  and  entrenched  themselves  ia 
turn  to  their  their  winter  quarters.  Now  in  this 
winter  war,  yon  must  needs   think   there  was 

quarters*  much  loss  on  both  sides,  of  which  be 
pleased  to  accept  this  brief  account  fol- 
lowing. 
An  account  The  K$nVs  captains,  when  they 
of  this  war  marched  from  the  court  to  come  up  a- 
ttrith  refer-  gains!  Mansoul  to  war;  as  they  came 
ence  to  the  crossing  over  the  country*  they  happen- 
lossonboth  ed  to  light  upon  three  young  feliows 
sides.  that  had  a  mind  to  go  tor  soidiers ;  prop- 

er men  tbey  were,  ami  men   of  conn  ge 
and  skill  to  ippe     -nee.     Their  name* 
Three  new  were  Mr.  T-rinitioiiv  Mr  ti uman- wisdom, 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  39 

and  Mr.  ManVinvention.  So  they  came  soldiers. 
up  to  the  captains,  and  proffered  . 
service  to  Shaddai.  The  captains  then  told  them 
of  their  design,  and  bid  them  not  to  be  rash  in  their 
otTers  :  but  the  young  men  (old  them,  they  had  con* 
sidered  the  thing  before,  and  that  hearing  they  were 
upon  their  march  for  such  a  design  came  hither  on 
purpose  to  meet  them,  that  tbey  might  be  listed  un- 
der their  excellences.  Then  captain  Boanerges 
(for  that  they  were  men  of  courage)  listed  them  inio 
his  company,  and  away  they  went  to  the  war. 

Now  when  (he  war  was  begun,  in  one  of  the 
briskest  skirmishes,  so  it  whs,  thai  a  company  of  the 
lord  WillbeAvilfs  men  sallied  out  at  the  sallyport  or 
postern,  of  the  town,  and  fell  in  upon  the  rear  of 
captain  Boaneraes's  men,  where  these  three  fello.vs 
happened  to  be,  ^o  trey  look  I  hem  pris- 
oners, and  away  they  carried  them  into  They  are 
the  town,  where  they  had  not  lain  long  taken  pris- 
in  durance,  but  it  began  to  be  noised  a-  oners. 
bout  the  streets  of  the  town,  what  Ihree 
notable  prisoners  ttm  lord  WillbewilFs  men  had  ta- 
ken, and  brought  in  prisoners  out  of  the  camp  of 
Shtddai;  at  length  tidings  thereof  were  carried  to 
Biabolus  to  the  castle,  to  wit,  what  my  lord  Willbe- 
will's  men  had  done,  and  whom  they  had  taken  pri- 
soners. 

Then  Diabolus  called  for  Willbewill, 
to  know  the  certainty  of  this  matter.  So  They  are 
he  asked  him,  and  be  told  him ;  their  brought  be- 
did  the  giant  3end  for  the  prisoners,  who  fore  Dia- 
when  they  were  come  demanded  of  bolus  and 
them  who  they  were,  whence  they  came,  content  to 
and  what  they  did  in  the  camp  of  Shad-  fight  under 
dai,  and  they  told  him :  then  he  sent  his  banner. 
them  to  ward  again.  Not  many  days 
after  he  sent  for  them  to  him  again,  and  then  asked 
them,  if  they  would  be  willing  to  serve  him  against 
their  former  captain ;  they  then  toid  him,  that  they 
did  not  so  much  live  by  religion  as  by  the  fates  of 
fortune  ;  and  that  since  his  lordship  was  willing  to 
entertain  them,  they  should  ue  willing  to  serve  iiini. 


*#  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Now  while  things  were  thus  in  hand. 
Anything,     there  was  owe  captain  Anything,  a  great 

doer  in  the  town  of  Mao  sou  I,  and  to  this 
He  there-  captain  Anything:,  did  Diabolus  send 
fore  sends  these  men  with  a  note,  under  his  hind, 
them  to  to  receive  them  into  his  company; 
captain  the  contents  of  which  letter  were  thus: 

Anything  "  Anything    my    darling,    the  three 

with  a  Let-  men  that  are  the   bearers  of  this  letter, 
ter.  have  a  desire  to  s^rve  me   in  the  war, 

nor  know  S  better  to  whose  conduct  to 
commit  them  than  lo  thine  ;  receive  them  therefore 
in  my  name,  and,  as  nee6  Shall  require,  make  use  of 

them  against  Shaddai  and  his  men. 
Anything  Farewell."  So  they  came,  and  he  re- 
rrceives  ceived  them,  and  he  made  two  of  them 
them  inio  Serjeants,  bui  he  made  Mr.  ManViuven- 
his  service,  tion   his  ensign  bearer.     But  this  muck 

for  this,  and  now  to  return  to  the  camp. 
The  roof  of  They  of  the  camp  did  also  some  exe- 
oli  Incre-  cution  upon  the  town,  for  they  did  beat 
dulity's  down  the  roof  of  the  lord  mayor's  house, 
house  beat  and  so  laid  him  more  open  than  he  was 
doivyi.  before.     They  had  almost,  with  a  sling, 

slain  my  lord    Willbewill  outright,   but 

he  made  a  shift  to  recover  again.  But 
Six  alder-  they  made  a  notable  slaughter  among 
men  slain,    the  aldermen,  for   with  one  only  shot 

they  cut  off  six  of  them,  to  wit,  Mr. 
Swearing,  Mr.  Whoring,  Mr  Fury,  Mr.  Stand-to- 
lies,  Mr.  Drunkenness,  and  Mr.  Cheating. 

They  also  dismounted  the  two  gun* 
Guns  dis-  that  stood  upon  the  tower  over  Ear  gate, 
mounted.         and  laid  them  flat  in  the  dirt.     I  tt  Id 

you  before,  that  the  King's  nolle  cap* 
tains  had  drawn  off  to  their  winter  qu  triers,  and  I 
there  entrenched  themselves  and  their  carriages,  so 
as  with  the  best  advantage  to  their  Kin£,  and  the 
greatest  annoyance  to  the  enemy,  they  might  give 
seasonable  and  warm  Harms  to  the  town  of  Man- 
soul  j  and  thb  design  of  them  did  so  hit,  that  1  m  » j 
say  they  d  (1  I'mos  hat  they  \>oaid  to  the  moles- 
tation of  the  corporation. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  $\ 

For  now  could  not  Mansoul  sleep  se-  Continual 
eurely  as  before,  nor  could  they    now  go  alarms  gifr 
to  their  debaucheries  with  that  quietness  en  to  Man- 
as  in   times  past;  for  they  had  from  the  soul.     The 
camp  of  Shaddai  such  frequent,   warm,  effects       of 
and  terrifying  alarms;  yea,  alarms  upon  convictions 
alarms.     First  at  one  gate,  and  then  at  though 
another:  and  again,  at  all  the  gates  at  common    if 
once,  that  they  were  broken  as  te  form-  abiding. 
er  peace:  yea,  they  had  their  alarms  so 
frequently,  and  that  when  the  nights  were  at  long- 
est, the  weather  coldest,  and   so   consequently  the 
season  most  unseasonable ;  and  that  winter  was  to 
the  town  of  Mansoul  a  winter  by  itself.     Sometimes 
the  trumpets  would  sound,  and  sometimes  the  slings 
would   whirl  the  stones  into  the  town.     Sometimes 
ten    thousand  of  the  King's  soldiers  would  be  run- 
ning round  the  Avails  of  Mansoul  at  midnight,  shout- 
ing and  lifting  up  the  voice   for  the   battle.     Some- 
times again   some  of  them  in  the   town  would  be 
wounded,  and  their  cry  and   lamentable 
roice  would  be  heard,  to  the  great  me-  The     town 
testation  of  the  now  languishing  town  much     mo- 
ot Mansoul :  yea,  so  distressed  with  those  tested. 
that  laid  siege  against  them,  were  they, 
that  I  dare  say  Diabolus  their  King  had,  in  these 
days,  his  rest  much  broken. 

In  these  days,  as  I  was  iuformed,  new 
thoughts,   and   thoughts   that  begun  to  Change    of 
run  counter   one   to   another,  began  to  thoughts  in 
possess   the  minds  of  the   men  of   the  Minsoul. 
town   of  Mansoul.     Some   would    say, 
there  is  no  living  thus;  ottiers    wolud    then  reply, 
this  will  be  over  shortly:  then  would  a   third  stand 
up  and  a»ewer,  let  us  turn  to  the  Kin|  BiUtildai,  and 
so  pat  an  end  to  these  troubles :  and  a   fourth  would 
come  in   with   a  <tfear,  saying,  I  doubt 
he  will  not   receive  us.     The  old  gen-  Conscience 
tleman  too,  the  Recorder,  that  was  so  speaks.  ■ 
before  Diabelus  took  Mansoul ;  he  also 
began  to  talk  aloud,  and  his  words  were  now  to    ihf, 
towa  of  Mansoul^  as  if  they  were  great  claps  of  than- 


62  WE  HOLY  WAR. 

tier.  No  noise  now  so  terrible  to  Mansoul  as  was 
his,  with  the  noise  of  the  soldiers,  and  shoutings  of 
the  captains. 

Also  things  began  to  grow  scarce  in 
A  famine  in  Mansoul:  now  the  things  that  her  soul 
Mansoul.  lusted  after  were  departing  from  her. 
Luke  14.  Upon  her  pleasant  things  there  was  a 
24.15.  blast,  and  a  burning  instead  of  a  beauty. 
Wrinkle*  mw,  and  some  shews  of  the 
shadow  of  death,  now  upon  the  inhabitants  of  Man- 
sou!.  And  now,  O  how  giad  would  Mansoul  have 
been  to  enjoy  quietness  and  satisfaction  of  mind, 
though  joined  with  the  meanest  condition  in  the 
world. 

*Theu  are  ^e  captains  also,  in  the  deep  of  this 
&  ,  •»  winter,  did  seud  by  the  mouth  of  Boa- 
.    .  nerges's  trumpeter,  a  summons   to  Man- 

?  . Y  soul  to  yield  herself  up  to  the  King,  the 

&      -  great  king  Shaddai.     They  sent  it  once, 

and  twice,  and  thrice,  not  knowing  but  that,  at  some 
times,  there  might  be  in  Mansoul  some  willingness 
to  surrender  up  themselves  unto  them,  might  they 
hut  have  the  colour  of  an  invitation  to  do  it  under. 
Yea,  so  far  as  1  could  gather,  the  towa  had  been 
surrendered  up  to  them  before  nowr,  had  it  not  been 
for  the  opposition  of  old  Incredulity,  and  the  fickle- 
ness of  the  thoughts  of  my  lord  Willbewill.  Dia- 
bolus  also  began  to  rave,  wherefore 
Mansoul  in  Mansoul,  as  to  yielding,  was  not  yet  all 
distress.  of  one  mind,  therefore  they  still  lay  dis- 
tressed under  these  perplexing  fears. 
I  told  you  but  now,  that  they  of  the  king's  army 
had,  this  winter,  sent  three  times  to  Mansoul,  to 
submit  herself. 

The  con-  The  first  time  the  trumpeter  went,  he 
tents  of  the  went  with  words  of  peace,  telling  of  them 
first  sum-  "  That  the  caplains^he  noble  captains 
mons*  of  Shaddai,  did  pity  aed  bewail  the  mis- 

ery of  thp  iZw  perishing  town  ©t  Man- 
soul ;  and  was  troubled  to  see  them  so  much  tostand 
in  the  way  of  their  own  deliverance.  He  said  more- 
over, that  the  captains  bid  bina  tell  them,  that  if 


THE  HOLY  WAR,  6S> 

a©w  poor  Mansoul  would  humble  herself  and  turn, 
her  former  rebellions,  and  most  notorious  treasons 
should,  by  their  merciful  king,  be  forgiven  them ; 
yea,  and  forgotten  too.  And  having  bid  them  be- 
ware that  they  stood  not  in  their  own  way,  that  they 
opposed  not  themselves,  nor  made  themselves  their 
ewn  losers  ;  he  returned  again  into  the  camp. 

Secondly,  The  second  time  the  trum- 
peter went,  he  treated  them  a  Utile  more  The      con- 
roughly,  for  after  sound  of  trumpet  he  tents  of  the 
told  them,   "That  their   continuing  in  secondsum* 
their  rebellion  did   but  chase   and  heat  mons. 
the  spirit  of  the  captains,  and  that  they 
were  resolved  to  make  a  conquest  of  Mansoul,  or  te 
lay  their  bones  before  the  town  walls. 

Thirdly,  He  went  again  the  third  time 
and  dealt  with  them  more  roughly,  te\-  The      con- 
ling  of  them,  "  That  now  since  they  had  tents  of  the 
been   so   horribly    profane,    he    did  not  third   sum* 
know,  not  certainly  know,  whether  the  mons. 
captains  were  inclined  to  mercy  or  judg- 
ment; orJy,  said  he,   they  commanded  me  to  give 
you  a  ssmimoris  to  open  the  gates  unto  them  :   so  he 
returned  and  went  into  the  camp." 

These  three  summonses,  and  especial-  The     town 
\y  the   two  last,  did  distress  the  town,  sounds  for 
that  they  presently  called  a   cousulta-  a  parley. 
tion,  the  result  of  which  was  this,  That 
my  Lord   Win  be  will  should  go  up  to  Ear-gate,  and 
there,  with  sound  of  rrumpet,  call  to  the  captains   of 
the  camp  for  a  parley.     W>11,  the  lord  Wiilbewiil 
sounded   upon  the  wall,  so  the  captains  came  up  in 
their  harness,  with  their  ten  thousand  at  their  feet. 
The  townsmen  then  told  the  captains,  that  they  had 
heard  and  considered   their  summons,   and  would 
come  to  an  agreement  with   them,  and  with  their 
King  Shaddai,  upon  such  certain  terras, 
articles  and  propositions,  as   with  and  They   pro- 
by  the  order  of  their  prince,   they  to  pound  con- 
them  were  appointed  to  propound,  to  wit,  dui&ns     of 
they  would  agree  upon  these  grounds  to  agreement. 
be  one  people  with  them. 


U  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Proposition  First,  "If  that  those  of  their  •wm 
•n  the  first,  company,  as  the  now  lord  Mayor,  and 

their  Mr.  Forget-good,  with  their  brav* 
Lord  Willbewiil,  might,  under  Shaddai,  be  still 
the  governors  of  the  town,  castle,  and  gates  of  Man- 
soul" 

Proposition  Second,  "  Provided  that  no  man  that 
on  the  8€t  now  serveth  under  their  great  giant  Dia- 
qond.  bolus  be,  by  Shaddai,  cast  out  of  house, 

harbour,  or  the  freedom  that  he  hath 
hitherto  enjoyed  in  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul." 

Third,  "  That  it  should  be  granted 
Proposition  them,  that  they  of  tke  town  of  Mansoul, 
011  the  third  shall  enjoy  certain  of  their  rights  and 

privileges,  to  wit,  such  as  have  formerly 
been  granted  them,  and  that  they  have  long  lived 
in  the  enjoyment  of,  under  the  reign  of  their  king 
Diabolns,  that  now  is,  and  long  has  been,  their  oaly 
lord  and  great  defender." 

Fourth,  "  That  no  new  law,  officer, 
Proposition  or  executioner  of  law  or  office,  ■hall 
on  t)u fourth  have  any   power  over  , them,    without 

their  own  ehoioe  and  consent. 
"These  be  eur   propositions,  or  conditions   of 
peace ;  and  upon    these  terms,  said  they,  we  will 
submit  to  your  King." 

But  when  the  captains  had  heard  this  weak  and 
feeble  offer  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  their  high 
and  bold  demands,  they  made  to  them  again,  by 
their  noble  captain,  the  captain  Boanerges,  this 
speeeh  following : 

"  O  ye  inhabitants  of  the  town  of 
Boanerges  Mansoul,  when  I  heard  your  trumpet 
his  answer,  sound  for  a  parley  with  us,  I  can  truly 

say  1  was  glad ;  but  when  you  said  you 
were  willing  to  submit  yourselves  to  our  King  and 
Lerd,  then  I  was  yet  more  glad ;  but  when  by  your 
silly  provisos,  and  foolish  cavils,  you  lay  the  stum- 
bling block  of  your  iniquity  before  your  own  faces; 
then  was  my  gladness  turned  into  sorrow,  and  my 
hopeful  beginnings  of  your  return,  into  languishing 
fainting  fears* 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  Q5 

*  I  count,  that  old  Ill-pause,  the  ancient  enemy 
of  Mansoul,  did  draw  up  these  proposals  that  now 
you  present   us  with,  as  terms  of  an  a- 
greemenc;  but  they  deserve  not  to  be  2    Tim.  1. 
admitted  to  sound  in  the  ear  of  any  man  19. 
(    it    pretends  to  have  service  for  Shad- 
dai.     We  do  therefore  jointly,  and  that  with   the 
highest  disdain,  refuse  and  reject  such  things  as  the 
greatest  of  iniquities. 

"  But,  O  Mansoul,  if  you  will  give  yourselves 
into  our  hands,  or  rather  into  the  hands  of  our  King, 
and  will  trust  him  to  make  such  terms  with,  and 
for  you,  as  shall  seem  good  in  his  eyes  (and  I  dare 
say,  they  shali  be  such  as  you  shall  find  to  be  most 
profitable  to  you)  then  we  will  receive  you  ;  but  if 
you  like  not  te  trust  yourselves  in  the  army  of  Shad- 
dai  our  King,  then  things  are  but  where  they  were 
before,  and  we  knew  also  what  we  have  to  do." 

Then  cried  out   old  Incredulity,  the 
lord  mayor,   and  said,  "  And  who,  be-  Old  Incre- 
ing  out  of  the  hands  of  the  enemies,  a3  dulity's  re- 
ye  see  we  are  now,  will  be  so  foolish  as  ply. 
to  put  the   staff  out  of  their  own  hands 
into  the  hands  of  they  know  not  who  ?    I  for  my 
part,  will  never  yield  to  so  unlimited  a 
proposition.     Do  we  know  the  manner  Unbelief 
and  temper  of  their  King  !  'Tis  said  by  never   is 
some,  that  he  will  be  angry  with  his  sub-  profitable 
jects,  if  but  the  breadth  of  an  hair  they  in     talk, 
chance  to  step  out  of  the  way ;  and  of  but  always 
others,  that  he  requireth  of    them  mueh  speaks  mis- 
move  than   they  can   perform.     Where-  chicvously. 
fore  it  seems,  O  Mansoul,  to  be  thy  wis- 
dom, to  take  good  heed  what  thou  doest  in  this  mat- 
ter.    For  if  you  once  yield,  you  give  up  yourselves 
to    another,   and  so  you  are   mo   more  your  own. 
Wherefore,  to  give  up  yourselves  to  an  unlimited 
power,  is  the  greatest  foily  in  the  world.     For  how 
you  indeed  may  repent,  but  can  never  justly  com* 
plain.     But  do  you  indeed  know  when  you  are  his, 
which  of  you  he  will   kill,  and  which  of  you  he 
will  save  alive?  Or  whether  he  will  net  eat  eff 


66  THE  HOLY  WAS*. 

every  one  of  us,  and  send  out  of  bis  own  country 
another  new  people,  and  cause  them  to  inhabit  this 
town." 

This  speech  of  the  lord  m^yor  tindkt 
This  speech  all,  arid  threw  flat  to  the  ground  their 
undid  all,  hopes  of  an  accord ;  wherefore  the  cap- 
but  it  did  tains  returned  to  their  trenches,  to  their 
please  the  tents,  and  to  their  men  as  they  were : 
devil.  and  the  mayor  to  the  castle  and  to  his 

king. 

Now  Diabolus  has  waited  for  his  return,  for  he 
had  heard  that  they  had  been  at  their  point ;  so 
•when  he  was  come  into  the  chamber  of  state,  Dia- 
bolus saluted  him  with,  Welcome,  my  lord:  How 
went  matters  betwixt  y©u  to  day  ?  So  the  lord  la- 
credulity,  with  a  lowr  congee,  told  him  the  whole  of 
the  matter,  saying,  Thus  and  thus  said  the  captain 
of  Shaddai,  and  thus  and  thus  said  I.  The  which 
when  'twas  told  to  Diabolus,  he  was-  very  glad  to 
hear  it  and  said,  "  My  lord  may  sr,  my  faithful  In- 
credulity, I  have  proved  thy  fidelity  above  ten  times 
already,  but  never  yet  found  thee  false.  I  do  pro- 
mise thee,  if  we  rub  over  this  brunt,  to  prefer  thee 
to  a  place  of  honour,  a  place  far  better  than  to  be 
lord  mayor  of  Mansoui ;  I  will  make  thee  my  uni- 
versal deputy,  and  thou  shalt,  next  to  me,  have  all 
nations  under  thy  hand;  yea,  and  thou  shalt  lay  tie* 
upon  them  that  they  may  not  resist  thee,  nor  shall 
any  of  our  vassals  walk  more  at  liberty  but  those 
that  shall  be  content  to  walk  in  thy  fetters." 

New  came  the  lord  mayor  out  from  Diabolus,  as 
if  he  had  obtained  a  favour  indeed ;  wherefore  to 
his  habitation  he  gees  in  great  state,  and  thinks  to 
feed  himself  well  enough  with  hopes,  until  the  time 
came  that  his  greatness  should  be  enlarged. 

But  now,  though  the  lord  mayor  and  Diabolus 
did  thus  well  agree,  yet  this  repulse  to  the  brave 
captains  put  Mansoui  into  a  mutiny.  For  while  old 
Incredulity  went  into  the  castle  to  con- 
The  under-  gratuiate  his  lord  with  what  had  passed 
standing  the  old  lord  mayor  that  was  so  before 
md  con-      Diabolus  *ame  to  the  town,  to  wit,  my 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  67 

lord  Understanding,  and  the  old  recor-  science  be- 
tter Mr.  Conscience,  getting  intelligence  gin  to  re- 
of  what  had  passed  at  Ear-gate,  were  ceive  con- 
much  concerned  therewith,  wherefore  victim  and 
they  getting  some  of  the  town  together  they  set  the 
begin  to  possess  them  with  the  reason-  soul  in  the 
abieness  of  the  noble  captains  demands  hubbub. 
and  with  the  bad  consequences  that 
would  follow  upon  the  speech  of  old  Incredulity, 
the  lord  mayor :  to  wit,  how  little  reverence  he 
shewed  therein,  either  to  the  captains,  or  to  their 
King;  also,  how  he  implicitly  charged  them  with 
unfaithfulness  and  treachery  ;  for  what  less,  quoth 
they,  could  be  made  of  his  words,  when  he  said,  he 
would  not  yield  to  their  proposition;  and  added 
moreover  a  supposition,  that  he  would  destroy  us, 
when  before  he  hard  sent  us  word  that  he  would 
shew  us  mercy.  The  multitude  being 
now  possessed  with  the  conviction  of  the  A  mutiny 
evil  that  old  Incredulity  had  done,  be-  in  Man- 
gan  to  run  together  by  companies  in  all  soul. 
places,  and  in  every  corner  of  the  streets 
of  Mansoui ;  and  first  they  began  to  mutter,  iben  to 
talk  openly,  and  after  they  ran  to  and  fro,  and  cried 
as  they  run,  "  O  the  brave  captains  of  Shaddai ! 
would  we  were  under  the  government  of  the  cap- 
tains, and  of  Shaddai  their  king  !"  When  the  lord 
mayor  had  intelligence  that  Mansoui  was  in  an  up- 
roar, down  he  comes  to  appease  the  people,  and 
thought  to  have  quashed  their  heat  with  the  bigness 
and  the  shew  of  his  countenance ;  but  when  the? 
saw  him,  they  came  running  upon  him,  and  doubt- 
less had  done  him  a  mischief,  had  he  not  betaken 
himself  to  a  house.  However,  they  strongly  as- 
saulted the  house  where  he  was,  to  have  it  pulled 
down  about  his  ears,  but  the  place  was  too  strong, 
so  they  failed  of  that.  So  he  taking  some  courage, 
addressed  himself  out  at  a  window,  to  the  people, 
in  this  manner : 

"  Gentlemen  says  Incredulity,  What  Incredulity 
is  the  reason  that  there  is  here  such  an  seeks  to  quiet 
uproar  to  day  V9  the  people. 


it  THE  HOLY  WAlt, 

My  lord  Then  answered  my  lord  Understand- 
Under-  ing,    "  It  is  even  because   that  thou  and 

standing  thy  master  have  carried  it  not  rightly, 
answers  and  as  you  should,  to  the  captains  of 
him.  Shaddai ;  for   in  three   things  you  are 

fruity:  First,  In  that  you  would  not  let 
Mr.  Conscience  and  myself  be  at  the  hearing  of  your 
discourse.  Secondly,  In  that  you  propounded  sueh 
terms  of  peace  to  the  captains,  that  by  no  means 
could  be  granted,  unless  they  had  intended  that 
their  Shaddai  should  have  been  only  a  titular 
prince,  and  that  Mansoul  should  still  have  had  pow- 
er, by  law,  to  have  lived  in  all  lewdness  and  vanity 
before  him;  and  so,  by  consequence,  Bialolus 
should  still  here  be  king  in  power,  and  the  other 
only  king  in  name.  Thirdly,  For  that  thou  didst 
thyself  (after  the  captains  had  shewed  us  upon 
-what  conditions  they  would  have  received  us  to 
mercy)  undo  all  again  with  thy  unsavoury,  unsea- 
sonable, and  ungodly  speech." 

When  old  Incredulity  had  heard  this 
Sin  and  the  speech  he  cried  out,  "Treason,  treason, 
soul  at  odds.  To  your  arms,  to  arms,  O  ye  the 
trusty  friends  to  Diabolus  in  Mansoal." 
"  Sir,  replied  understanding,  you  may  put  upon 
my  words  what. meaning  you  please,  but  I  am  sure 
that  the  captains  of  such  an  high  Lord,  as  their's  is, 
deserved  a  beiter  treatment  at  your  hands." 

Then  said  old  Incredulity,  "  This  is 
They  chide  but  little  better.  But,  sir,  quoth  he,  what 
en  both  I  speak,  I  speak  for  my  prince,  for  his 
sides.  government,   and   the    quieting   of  the 

people,  whom  by  your  unlawful  actions, 
you  have  this  tiny  set  to  mutiny  against  us." 

Then  replied  the  old  Recorder,  whose  name  was 
Mr.  Conscience,  and  said,  "  Sir,  you  ought  not  thus 
to  retoT  upon  what  my  lord  Understanding  hath 
said.  "Pis  evident  enough  that  he  hath  spoken  the 
truth,  and  that  you  are  an  enemy  to  Mansoul,  be 
convinced  then  of  the  evil  of  your  saucy  and  mal- 
a  pert  language,  and  of  the  grief  that  you  have  put 
H|e  captains  toj  yea,  and  ©f  the  damages  that  yea 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  r§ 

have  done  to  Mansoul  thereby.  Had  you  accepted 
of  the  conditions,  the  sound  of  the  trumpet,  and 
the  alarm  of  war  had  now  ceased  about  the  town  of 
Mansoul,  but  that  dreadful  sound  abides,  and  your 
want  of  wisdom  in  your  speech  hat  been  the  cause 
of  it." 

Then  said  old  Incredulity,  "  Sir,  if  I  live  I  will 
do  your  errand  to  Diabolus,  and  here  you  skali 
have  an  answer  to  your  words.  Mean  while  we 
will  seek  the  good  of  the  town,  and  not  ask  counsel 
•f  you. 

Then  replied  Understanding,  "  Sir,  your  prince 
and  you  are  both  foreigners  to  Mansoul,  and  noi 
the  natives  thereof.  And  who  can  tell  but  that 
when  you  have  brought  us  into  greater  straits,  when 
you  also  shall  see  (hat  yourselves  can  be  safe  by  no 
other  means  than  by  flight,  you  may  leave  us  and 
shift  for  yourselves,  or  set  us  on  fire,  and  go  away 
in  the  smoke,  or  by  the  light  of  our  burning,  and  s© 
leave  us  in  our  ruins." 

At  this  replied  Incredulity,  "  Sir,  you  forget  tkatr 
you  are  under  a  governor,  and  that  you  ought  to  de- 
mean yourself  like  a  subject;  and  know  ye,  whea 
my  lord  the  king  shall  hear  of  this  day's  work,  he 
will  give  you  but  little  thanks  for  your  labour." 

Now    while    these    gentlemen   were 
thus  in    their    chiding    words,     down,  Men  of 
comes  from  the  walls    and  gates  of  the  arms  contt 
town,  the  lord   Willbewill,  Mr.    Preju-  down. 
dice,  old    Ill-pause,    and  several  of  the 
new  made  aldermen  and  burgesses,  and  they  asked 
the    reason  of  the  hubbub  and    tumult ;  and   with 
that  every  man  began  to  tell  his  own  tale,  so  that 
nothing  could  be  heard  distinctly.     Then  was  a  si- 
lence commanded,  and  the  old  fox  Incredulity  be- 
gan to   speak  ;  "  My    lord,   quoth   he,    here   are  a 
couple  of  peevish  gentlemen,  that  have  as  a  fruit  of 
their   bad  dispositions,  and   as  a  fear    through   the 
advice  of  one  Mr.  Discontent,  tumultously  gather- 
ed this  company  against  me  this  day;  and  also  at- 
tempted  to  run  the  town   into  acts  of  rebellion  a- 
gainst  our  printe," 


i*  THB  HOLY  WAR. 

A  great  Then  stood  up  all  the  Diabolians  thai* 

confusion,  were  present,  and  affirmed  these  things 
t@  he  trne. 
Now  when  they,  that  took  part  with  ray  lord  Un- 
derstanding, and  with  Mr.  Conscience,  pereeived  that 
they  were  like  to  come  to  the  worst,  for  the  force 
and  power  was  on  the  other  side,  they  came  in  for 
their  help  and  relief :  so  a  great  company  was  ou 
both  sides.  ^Then  they  on  Credulity's  side,  would 
have  had  the  two  old  gentlemen  presently  away  to 
prison,  but  they  on  the  other  side  said  they  would 
not.  Then  they  began  to  cry  up  parties  again  :  the 
Diabolians  cried  up  old  Incredulity,  Forget-good  the 
faew  alderman,  and  their  great  one  Diabolus :  and 
the  other  party,  they  as  fast  cried  up  Shaddai,  the. 
•aptains,  his  law?,  their  mercifulness,  and  applaud- 
ed their  conditions  and  ways.  Tkus  the 
Thryfall  bkkerment  went  a  while,  at  tast  they 
from  passed   from   words  to  blows,   and  new 

words  to       there  were  knocks  on  both  sides.     The 
blwvs.  good  old  gentleman,  Tlr.Conscience,  w  a* 

knocked  down  twice  by  one  of  the  Dia- 
bolians, whose  name  was  Mr.  Bcnumming:  and  my 
lord  Understanding  had  like  to  have  been  slain  with 
an  harquebuz,  but  that  he  that  shot,  wanted  to  take 
his  aim  aright.  Nor  did  the  other  side  wholly  es- 
cape, for  there  was  one  Mr.  Rash-head,  a  Diabolian, 
that  had  his  brains  beaten  out  by  Mr. 
A  hot  Mind,    the  lord  WillbewilPs  servant ; 

skirmish.  and  it  made  me  laugh  t©  see  how  old 
Mr.  Prejudice  was  kick'd  and  tumbled 
about  in  the  dirt.  For  though  a  while  since,  he  was 
made  captain  of  a  company  of  Diabolians,  to  the  hurt 
and  damage  of  the  tow n,  yet  now  they  had  got  him 
under  their  feel :  and  I'll  assure  you  he  had,  by 
some  of  the  lord  Understanding's  party,  his  crown 
soundly  cracked  to  boot.  Mr.  Anything  also,  he  be- 
came a  brisk  man  in  the  broil,  but  both  sides  were 
against  him,  because  he  was  true  to  none ;  yet  he 
had  for  his  malapertness,  one  of  his 
Harm  done  legs  broken,  and  he  that  did  it  wished 
sn  both        it  had  been  his  neck.    Much  harm  more 


/PHE  HOLY  WAS.  7I 

was   done  on  both   sides,  but  this  must  sides* 
not  be  forgotten :  it  was  now  a  woader 
to  see  my  lord  Willhewill  so  indifferent  as  he  was, 
he  did  not  seem  to  take  ene  sld^  more  than  another, 
only  it  was  perceived    ibv.i  he  si  see  how 

old  Prejudice  was    turn!  and  down    in    the 

dirt:  and  also  when  captain  Aayfl  \e halting 

up  before  him,  he  eecmed  to  take  but  little  notice  of 
hira. 

Now  when  the  uproar  was  over,  Hia- 
boiua  sends    for  my   lord  Pjiderstandxng  The      tw& 
and  Mr.  Conscience,  and  claps  them  both  eld  gentle- 
*[j  in  prison,  as4he  ringleaders  and   m\-  tnm       put 
Bagers  of  (bis    most  heavy    riotous  relit  in    prison 
in  Mansoul.  So  nov.   the  tpwn   began  to  as  the  au- 
be  quiel    again,  and  t lit  prisoners  were  thcrs       of 
used  hardly,   yea,    he    thought    t*   h£ve  this    revel 
madf  Hum  away,  but  that   the  present  rout. 
juncture  did  not  serve  for  thai    pur  ose, 
for   that   war  was    in  all   their  gates.     Bnt  let   us 
again  to  our  gtory  ;  the   captains,   when  they   were 
gone  back    from   the   gate,    and    when 
they  were  come  into  the  camp,  again  The     rr/u 
ealled    a    council    of    w?*r,  to    consult  tains  call  a 
what  was  farther   for  them  to  do.     Now  cc: 
some  said,  let  us  go   presently  and  fall  and      con- 
tipon  the   town,  but    the   greatest    part  suit    what 
thought  rather  better    it   would    be    to  to  do. 
<jive  them  another  summons   to  yield ; 
and  the  reason  why  they  thought  this  to  be  the  best 
was,  because  that  so  far  as  could  be  perceived,  the 
town   of  Mansoul   was  nowr  more   inclinable   than 
heretofore ;  and  if,  s^id   they,  wThile   some  of  them 
are  in  a  w*y  0f  inclination,  we  should  by  rugged- 
ness,  give  them  distaste,   we  may  set  them  further • 
from  closing  with  our  summons,  when  we  would  be 
willing  they  should. 

Wherefore  to  this  advice  they  a-  The  result 
greed,  and  called  a  trumpeter,  put  is,  they 
words  rn»o  his  mouth;  set  him  his  time,  send  anc- 
and  but  him  God  We\U  many  ther  trum- 

hours    were    not    expired,   before   the  peter       (0 


*2  #HE  HOI  Y  WA1,      - 

summon  trumpeter  addressed  Jiimself  to  his  jour- 
iht  toivn  nty.  Wherefore,  coming  up  to  the  wall 
to  yit  id.  of  rhe  to^  n,  he  steered  his  course  to  Ear- 
gate,  and  there  sounded  as  he  was  com- 
manded ;  they  then  that  were  within,  came  out  to 
see  wh  a  was  the  matter,  and  the  trumpeter  made 
them  this  speech  following : 

Th*  sum-  '  ^  hard  hearted,  and  deplorable 
mans  itself  town*of  Mansoiil !  how  long  wilt  thon 
■v*  love  thy  sinful  simplicity,  and  ye  fools 
delight  in  their  scorning?  As  yet  deepke  ye  the  of- 
fers of  peace  and  deliverance  ?  As  yet  will  ye  refuse 
the  golden  offers  of  Shaddai,  and  trust  to  the  lie* 
and  falsehoods  of  Diabolas  !  Think  you,  when  ShaeV 
dai  shall  have  conquered  you,  that  the  remembrance 
of  these  your  carriages  towards  him,  will  yield  you 
peace  and  comfort ;  or  that  by  ruffian  language, 
you  can  make  him  afraid  as  a  grasshopper  ?  Deth 
he  entreat  you  for  fear  of  you  ?  Do  you  think  that 
you  are  stronger  than  he  ?  Look  to  the  heavens, 
and  behold,  and  consider  the  itars  how  high  are 
they?  Can  you  stop  the  sun  from  running  his 
eourse,  and  hinder  the  moon  from  giving  her  light  ? 
Can  you  count  the  number  of  the  stars?  or  stay  the 
battles  of  heaven  ?  Can  you  call  for  the  waters  of 
the  sea,  and  cause  theti  to  cover  the  face  of  1  he 
ground  ?  Can  you  behold  every  one  that  is  proud, 
and  abase  him  that  bind  their  faces  in  secret  ?  yet 
these  are  some  of  the  works  of  our  King,  in  whose 
name,  this  day  we  come  up  unto  you,  that  ye  may 
he  brought  under  his  authority.  In  his  name, 
therefore,  I  summon  you  again  to  yield  up  jour> 
aelves  to  his  captaiHS." 

At  this  summons  the  Mansoulians 
The  toivn  seemed  to  be  at  a  s^and,  and  kaew  not 
at  a  stand,  what  answer  t&  mvke  ;  wherefore  Dia- 
betes forthwith  appeared,  and  took  up- 
on him  to  do  it  himself;  and  thus  he  begins,  but 
turns  his  speech  to  them  of  Blansoul. 

"  Gentlemen,  quoth  he,  and  my  faith- 
Diabolus  ful  subjects,  if  it  is  true  that  this  sum- 
makes  a        moner   hath  said  concerning  the  great 


*JHB  HOLY  WAR*  rs 

*ess  of  their  King;   by  his  terror   you  speech      t* 
Will  always  be  kept  in  bondage,  and  so  Hie      towny 
be  rmde  to  sneak.  Tea,  how  can  ye  now,  and  endea- 
though  he  is  at  a  distance,   endure  to  vours       to 
think  of  such  a  mighty  one?  and  if  not  terrify      it 
to  think  of  him    while    at    a  distance,  with        the 
how  cau  you  endure  to  be  in   his  pres-  greatness 
ence  ?  I,  your  prince  am   familiar  with  of  God. 
j on,  and  ye»u  may  play  with  me  as  you 
would  with-  a  grasshopper.     Consider  therefore  what. 
is  for  your  profit,  and  remember  the  immunities  that 
I  have  granted  you. 

u  Further,  if  all  be  true  that  this  Mansoul  hath 
laid,  how  comes  it  to  pass  that  the  subjects  of  Shad- 
•lai  ar  *  so  enslaved  in  all  places  where  they  come  ? 
Bone  in  the  universe  so  unhappy  as  they. 

"  Consider,  my  Mansoul,  would  thou  wert  as 
loth  to  leave  me  as  I  am  loth  to  leave  thee.  But 
consider,  i  s  iy,  the  ball  is  as  yet  at  thy  foot ;  lib- 
erty you  have,  if  you  know  how  to  use  it :  yea,  a 
king  you  have  too,  if  you  can  tell  how  to  love  and 
©bey  him." 

Upan  this  speech,  the  town  of  Man- 
soul did  again   harden   their  hearts  yet  He     drives 
more  against  the  captains  of  Shaddai :  Mansoul 
the  thoughts  of  his  greatness  did  entire-  into       des- 
}j  quash  them,  and  the  thoughts  of  his  pair. 
holiness  sunk  them  into  despair.  Where- 
fore, after  a  short  consultation,  they  (of  the  Diabolian 
party  they  were;  sent  back  this  word  by 
the  trumpeter,   "  That  for  their  parts,  Mansoul 
they  were   resolved   to   stick   to   their  grew  worst 
king,  and  never  to  yield  to  Shaddai,  so  and  parse. 
it  was  but  in  vain   to  give  them  any 
further  summons,  for  they  had  rather  die  upon  the 
place  than  yield."     And  now  things  seemed  to  be 
gone  quite  back,  and  Manaou!  to  be  out  of  reach  or 
call;  yet  the  captains,  who  'new  what  their  Lord 
would  do,   would   not   be   be      out  of  heart :  they, 
therefore   sent  them  another  sumntons  tnore  sharj* 
and  severe  than  the  last,  but  tfce  ofterier  they  were 
sent  to  (t9  reconcile  to  Shaddai,  the  farther  ^ff  ther 
7 


?4  $«E  HOLY  WAR. 

1709.11.2.  were.     As  they  called  them,  se  they 

went  from  them;  yea  though  they  cal- 

led  them  to  the  most  High. 

The      cap-       So  they  censed  that  way  to  deal  with 

ittins   have  them  any  more,  and  inclined  to  think  of 

ejflo  sum-  another  way.     The  captains  therefore 

mon       and  did  gather  themselves  together,  to  have 

hetake  free    commerce  among  themselves,    to 

themselves    know    what  was  yet  to  be  done  against 

to  prayer,    the  town,  and    to   deliver   it   from  the 

tyranny  of  Diabohis :  and  one  said  after 

ii3  manner,  and    another  after  that ;  then  stood   up 

fhe  right  noble  the  captain  Conviction,  and  said: 

u  My  brethren,  my  opinion  is  this ;  First,  That 
we  continually  play  our  slings  into  the  town,  and 
keep  it  in  a  continual  alarm,  molesting  of  thena 
day  and  night;  by  this  doing  we  shall  stop  the 
growth  of  their  rampant  spirit.  For  a  lion  may  be 
tamed  by  continual  subjection. 

"  Secondly,  This  done,  I  advise  that,  in  the  next 
place,  we,  with  one  consent  draw  up  a  petition  to 
©urLord  Shaddai,  by  which,  after  we  have  shewed 
©ur  King  the  condition  of  Mansoul,  and  of  affairs 
laere^and  have  begged  his  pardon  for  our  no  better 
success,  we  will  earnestly  implore  his  majesty's  help 
and  that  he  will  please  to  send  us  more  force  and 
power,  and  some  gallant  and  well  spoken  comman- 
der to  head  them,  that  so  his  majestj  may  not  lose 
Hie  benefit  of  these  his  good  beginnings,  but  may 
complete  his  conquest  upon  the  town  of  Mansoul." 

To  this  speech  of  the  noble  captain  Conviction's 
they  as  one  man  consented ;  and  agreed  that  a 
petition  should  forthwith  be  drawn  up,  and  sent  by 
a  fit  man  away  to  Shaddai  with  speed.  The  con- 
tents of  the  petitioq  were  thus : 

"  Most  gracious  and  glorious  king,  the  Lord  of 
fte  best  world  and  the  builder  of  the  town  of  Man- 
soul, We  have,  dread  sovereign,  at  thy  command^ 
put  our  lives  in  jeopardy  :  and  at  thy  bidding,  made 
a  war  upon  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul. 
Uof,  £2.  When  we  went  up  against  it,  we  did 
ft  stoeordmg  t#  «*r  «s«amr»si#a  ;  first,  #f- 


TIIE  HOLY  WAR.  55 

fered  conditions  of  peace   unto  it,  but  Prov.  1. 
they  (great  king)  set  light  by  our  coun-  Zeck.   7. 
sel   and    would    none   of    our    reproof;   10,  11,  12. 
they   were   for  shutting  of  their  gates,  13. 
and   for   keeping  us   out  of   the  town ; 
they  also  mounted  their  guns,  they  sallied  out  upon 
us,  and  have  done  us  what  damage  they  could,  but 
we  pursued   them  with  alarm  upon  alarm,  requiting 
Gftheai  with    such    retribution  as   was   meet,  and 
have  done  some  execution  upon  the  town. 

u  Diabolus,  Incredulity,  and  Wilibewill,  are  ths 
great  doers  against  us,  now  we  are  in  our  winter 
quarters,  but  so  as  that  we  do  yei,  with  an  high 
hand,  molest  and  distress  the  town. 

"  Once,  as  we  think,  had  we  had  but  one  sub- 
stantial friend  in  the  town,  such  as  would  but  have 
seconded  the  sound  of  our  summons  as  they  ought, 
the  people  might  have  yielded  themselves  ;  but  there 
were  none  but  enemies  there,  nor  any  to  speak  in 
behalf  of  our  Lord  to  the  town,  wherefore,  though 
we  have  done  as  we  could,  yet  Mansoul  abides  in  a 
stute  of  rebellion  against  thee. 

"  Now  King  of  kings,  let  it  please  thee  to  par.- 
don  the  unsuccessfulness  of  thy  servants,  who  have 
been  no  more  advantageous  in  so  desirable  a  work, 
as  the  conquering  of  Mansoul  is  ;  and  send,  Lord, 
as  we  now  desire  more  forces  to  Mansoul,  that  it 
may  be  subdued  ;  and  a  man  to  head  them,  that  the 
town  may  both  love  and  fear. 

u  We  do  not  thus  speak  because  we  are  willing 
to  relinquish  the  wars  (f@r  we  are  laying  of  our 
bones  against  the  place)  but  that  the  town  of  Man- 
soul may  be  won  for  thy  majesty.  We  also  pray 
thy  majesty  for  expedition  in  this  matter,  that  af- 
ter their  conquest,  we  may  be  at  liberty  to  be  sent 
about  other  thy  gracious  designs.'' 

The  petition  thus  drawn  up,  was  sent  Who  car- 
away  with  haste  to  the  king,  by  the  hand  ricd  this 
of  that  good  man,  Mr,  Love-io-Man3cul.  'petition. 

When  this  petition  was  come  to  the 
palace  of  the  king,  who  should  it  be  de-  To  whom 
-livercd  to  but  to  the  King's  son  \  so  he  it  was  dt*. 


70  *HE  HOLY  WAR. 

livered.  took  it  and  read  it,  and  because  the  con- 
tents of  it  pleased  him  well,  he  mend- 
ad,,  and  also  in  some  things,  added  to  the  petition 
.himself.  So  after  he  had  made  such  amendments 
and  additions  as  he  thought  convenient, 
The  king  with  his  own  hand,  he  carried  it  to  th«fc 
receives  it  King;  to  whom,  when  he  had,  with  ©- 
with  glad-  beisance,  delivered  it,  he  put  on  author* 
ness.  ity  and  spake  to  it  himself. 

Now  the  King,  at  the  sight  of  the  pe- 
tition, was  glad  ;  but  how  much  more,  think  you 
when  it  was  seconded  by  his  son.  It  pleased  him 
also  to  hear  that  his  servants,  that  camped  against 
Mansoul,  were  so  hearty  in  the  work,  and  so  sted- 
fast  in  their  resolves :  and  that  they  had  already  got 
some  ground  upon  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul. 

Wherefore  the  King  called  to  him 
,The  King  Emmanuel  his  son,  who  said,  kere  am  I3 
calls  his  my  father.  Then  said  the  King,  "The* 
son,  and  knowest  as  I  do  myself,  the  conditioM 
UUs  him  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  what  we 
that  he  have  purposed,  and  what  thou  hast  done 
shall  go  to  to  redeem  it.  Come  now,  therefore*  ray 
conquer  the  son,  and  prepare  thyself  for  the  war, 
town  of  for  thou  shalt  go  to  my  camp  at  Man- 
Manscvl,  soul ;  thou  shalt  also  there  prosper  and 
and  he  is  prevail,  and  conquer  the  town  of  Man- 
pkased  at  soul."  Then  said  the  King's  son,  "Thy 
if.  law  is  within  my  heart,  1  delight  to  do 

Heb.  10.  thy  will.  This  is  the  day  that  I  have 
He  solaccth  longed  for,  and  the  work  that  I  have 
himself  in  waited  for  all  this  while.  Grant  me 
fhethoughts  therefore  what  force  thou  shalt  in  thy 
oftkisnork.vfhdorn  think  meet,  and  I  will  go  and 
deliver  from  Diabolus,  and  from  his 
power,  thy  perishing  town  of  Mansoul.  My  heart 
has  been  often  pained  within  me  for  tke  miserable 
town  of  Mansoul.  But  now  'tis  rejoiced,  but  now 
'tis  glad ;  and  with  that  he  leaped  over  the  moun- 
tains for  joy,  saying: 

u  I  have  not  in  my  heart,  thought  any  thing  to© 
dear  for  Nanwul,  the  day  of  vengeance  is  in  mj 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  77 

heart  for  thee,  my  Mansoul ;  and  glad  am  I   that 
thou,  my  father,  hast  made  me  the  cap-* 
tarn  of  their  salvation ;  and  I  will  now  Heb.  2.  10. 
begin   to    plague   all   those    that  have 
been  a  plague  to  my  town  of  Mansoul,  and  will  de- 
li ver  it  from  their  hand." 

When  the  King's  son  had  thus  said  to  his  father, 
it  presently  flew  like  lightning  round  about  at  court: 
yea,  it  there  became  the  only  talk  what  ./, 

Emmanuel  was  to  go  to  do  for  the  fa-  The  highest  . 
mous  town  of  Mansoul.     But  you  cm- peer  in  the 
not  think  how   the  courtiers  too  were  kingdom 
taken  with  this  design  of  the  Prince  :  covets      to 
yea,    so    affected  were  they    with  thte  go  on  this 
work,  and  with  the  justice  of  the  war,  design.     , 
that  the   highest  lord,  and  greatest  peer 
of  the  kingdom,  did  covet  to  have  commission?  un- 
der Emmanuel,  to  go  to  help  to  recover  again  to 
Shaddai  the  miserable  town  of  MausouL 

Then  it  was  concluded,  that  some  should  go  and 
carry  tidings  to  the  camp,  that  Emmanuel  was  to 
come  to  recover  Mansoul,  and  that  he  would  bring 
along  with  him  so  mighty,  so  impregnable  a  force, 
that  he  could  not  be  resisted.  But  oh,  how  ready 
were  the  high  ones  at  court  to  run  like  lacquies,  to 
carry  these  tidings  to  the  camp  that  was  at  Mantbul. 
Now  when  the  captains  perceived  that 
the  king  would  send  Emmanuel  his  son,  The  camp 
and  that  it  also  delighted  the  son  to  be  shout  for* 
sent  on  this  errand,  by  the  great  Shad-  joy  when 
dai  his  father;  they  also,  to  shew  how  they  heat 
they  were  pleased  at  the  thoughts  of  hi3  the  tidings. 
coming,  gave  a  shout  that  made  the 
earth  rend  at  the  sound  thereof;  yea,  the  mountains 
did  answer  again  by  echo,  and  Diabolus  himself  did 
totter  and  shake. 

For  you  must  know,  that  though  the  town  of 
Mansoul  itself  was  not  much,  if  at  all,  concerned 
with  the  project  (for,  alas  for  them,  they  were  wo- 
fully  besotted)  for  they  chiefly  regarded  their  plea- 
sure and  their  lusts,  yet  Diabolus  their 
governor  was,  for  he  had  his  spies  con-  Diahokis' 
7* 


n  «THE  HOLY  WAR. 

afraid  at      tinuaJIy  abroad,  who  brought  him  inteU 
the    news      ligence  of  all  things,  and  "they  tolal  him 
of       his    "what  was  doing  at  court  against  him. 
coming.         and  that  Emmanuel  would  shortly,  and 
certainly  come  with  a  power  to  invade 
him.     Nor  was  there  any  man  at  court,  nor  peer 
of  the  kingdom,  that  Biabolns  so  feared  as  he  feared 
the  prince;    for  if  you  remember,  I  shewed  yoa 
before  that  Diabolus  had  felt  the  weight  of  his  hand 
already,   so  that   since  it  was  he  that  was  to  come 
this  made  him  the  more  afraid.     Well,  you  see  how 
I  have  told  you  that  the  King's  son  was  engaged  to 
come  from  the  court  to  save  Mansoul, 
The  prince  and  that  his  father  had  made  him  the 
addressing   captain  of  the  forces :  the  time  thereof 
himself         of  his  setting  forth  being  now  expired, 
for  fas         he  addressed  himself  for  his  march,  and 
journey,        taketh  with  him,  for  his  power,  five  no- 
ble captains  and  their  forces. 
*Fhe  first  was  the  famous  captain,  the  noble  cap- 
tain ©redence,  his  were  the  red  colours, 
John  1.  20.  and  Mr.  Promise  bare  them  :  and  for  aa 
Sph.  §.  10.  escutcheon,  he  had  the  holy  lamb  and 
golden  shield ;  and  he  had  ten  thousand 
men  at  his  feet. 

The  second  was  that  famous  captain, 
fleb.  B.  19.  the  captain  Good-Hope,  his  were  the 
blue  colours  'r  his  standard  bearer  was 
Mr.  Expectation;  and  for  an  escutcheon  he  had  the 
three  golden  anchors;  and  he  had  ten  thousand 
nen  at  hit  feet. 

The  third  captain  was  that  valiant, 
1  €or.  13.  taptain,  the  captain  Charity ;  his  stand- 
ard bearer  was  Mr.  Pitiful,  his  were  the 
green  colours ;  and  for  his  escuteheon  he  had  three 
naked  orphans  embraced  in  the  bosom ;  and  he  had 
ten  thousand  men  at  his  feet. 

The  fourth  was  the  gallant  commaa- 

Mat.  10.      dertheeaptain  Innocent;  his  standard- 

16.  bearer  was  Mr.  Harmless,  his  were  the 

white  colours ;    and  for  his  escutcheon 

le  bad  tbe  tferee  golden  ttev«i . 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  7* 

The  fifth  was  the  truly  loyal  and  well  beloved 
captain,  the  captain  Patience ;  his  standard-bearer 
was  Mr.  Suffer-long,  his  were  the  black  colours ; 
and  for  an  escutcheon  he  had  three  arrows  through 
the  golden  heart.  4L     * 

These    were    Emmanuel's   captains,    **  •>*»* 
these  their  standard,  bearers,  their  col-  Faith  and 
ours  and  their   escutcheons^  anddhese  patience 
the  men  under  their  commands *So," as »do,the  *  v 
was   said^  the  br,nz.e  t Prince-'  tcr&oifec3t*&pr&.'   •»-«* 
inarch  to«  go;  to  ithe^town  tfiM&n&ouk eHeb¥&'  Hf. 
Captain  CredencepleiMhe  van,  and  cep-nce. 
tain   E^tie^c^ohrfiji^ifetupdrthe  rear.     So  the  other 
three  witty  itieir  me  hthm  ad  e.  up  the  main  tody;  the- 
Prince  himself.rijdingv^n  his  chaxiot  at  the;Lead"bjf 

them.  i-Ho-V**'"-  /n  pg*i  flta        nut. 

But  when-  they  set  outrfor  their^march,  oh  how 
the  trumpets  sounded,  »  their  armouru glittered,  and 
how  the  colours  waved  in  the  windho>TheejPrinceV 
armour  was  all  ofjgold,  andrit  shone  like^the  sun  in 
the  firmament.*   Tjhe  captains  armoumwas  of  proof? 
and  was  in  appearance,  like  the  glitter-     m 
ing  stars.     There  was  also  sornerifrom  Tluir         < 
the  court  that  rode   refcrmadesy-.fQjMhe  march* 
love  that  they  had  ta  the  King^haddai,-    «  a 
and  for  the  happy  deliverance^*  the  town  of  Ma«& 
soul.  iv  is .    --v    c»- 

Emmanuel  also,  when  he  hadvthus  set  forwards*te 
go  to  recover  the  townjof  Mansoul,  took    a,  ^ui,  m.. 
with  him  at  the  commandment  of  &ihiTh&    holtf 
father,    forty-four    battering-rams,  M  and  Jfiblcn  ixqIl* 
twelve  slings   to^  whirl   stones  withal.jfltaimngcpotf- 
Every  one  of  these  was  made^f,  p^re  books.    n\n 
gold,  and  these  they  carried,  with. them         <a>     4  1 
in  the  heart  and  body  of  their  army,  all  along  as 
they  went  to  Mansoul.  *  Chi  kH 

So  they  marched  till  they  eame  within  lesstliaa^ 
a  league  of^the  iown^nu^there  they  lay  .^r  .  tn€ 
till  the  first  four  captains  came  hither,,  Thetfdiyets. 
to  acquaint  him  with  matters.  Then  joiriefy  nnth 
they  took  their  journey  to  go  to  the  rejoicing*  A 
town  of  Mansoul,  and  *n to  Majwoul  tiiej 


$5  -SHE  HOLY  WAR. 

?/'Came;  but  when  the  old  soldiers,  that  were  ia  the 

*fot;amp,  saw  that  they  had  new  forces  to  join  with, 

of  they  again  gave  such  a  shout  before  the  walls  of  the 

wfctown  of  Mansoul,  that  it  put  Diabolus  into  another 

fright:  so  they  sat  down  before  the  town,  not  now 

liii        N"  v  ,as  the"  other  four  captains  did,  to  wit, 

of  MansouUtiv  against  the  gates  of  Mansoul  only  \  but 

*r  beleaguered  they  environed- it  round  on  every  side, 

around.      f^ajpSj  oese't  behind  and^Defore,  so  that  now 

>eady       «  jUjgf  Mtinsoul  loofeV^^  wa^it  will  it 

Mounts  iirfTsaw  force*  tfiid  power  lie  in' siege  against 

-  castiifiW  vcitrbesides,MhertfSrVre  Mounts  cast  a- 

against  it*  gainst  it.  u*e  -OUlt  (°  todVr  — s 
Th*  The  mount  gracious*  was*  oVfhe  oue'side,  and 
*'rnount*£justice  was  on  the  others   Further,  there 
^Svere  several  small  banks^ind  ^Sdvan§8*  ground,  as 
J Piain-truth-hilf*and  No-sin-banks,  vvherecmany  of 
.M'he  slinks  were  placed  against   the  town.     Upon 
mount  draeious*were  planted  four,  and  upon  mount 
Jwstieer*\vere   planted  as  many  V'aud  the  rest  were 
conveniently*  placed  in  several3  parrs  round  about 
•Ahe  town;  live  oi-Ahe  best  battering  rams,  that  is,  of 
^.the  biggest  of  theYh^were  placed  upon  mount  Heark- 
en, a  mount  *casT  1ipv  hard  by"  Ear-gate,  with  intent 
^to  breast  fiat  open. 

Now  when  the  men   of  the  town   saw  the  multi- 
^"tude^of  the  soimtrs'that  were  come  up  against  the 
place    and  the  rams  and  slings,  and  the  mounts  on 
^whi^nrthey  were  planted,  together  with  the  glitter- 
ing of  armuur^Wl  the  waving  of  their  colours,  they 
*xfei*  a*  *"*  *?*were  forced  to  shift  and  shift,  and  again 
'Vue    heart  to >hif*  /their  thought??  but^they  hardly 
lof'Mansoid  chVai!^j(l   forethoughts   more  stout,  but 
begins      to  rather  for  thoughts  more  faint:  for  though 
fail.         u    before    they  thought   themselves   suffi- 
<*  ed  <rr^arciently  guarded,  yet  now  they  began  to 
*think,tbal  no  man  knew  what  would  Be  their  hap  or 
Jot.    ;  l     ** 

Wat.      .        •  i  when  the  good  prince  Emmanuel  had 
*The    white  thus  beleaguered   Mansoul :  in  the  first 
flag*  hung  place  he  hangs  out  the  while  flag,  which 
mtt,  be  caused  fa>  be  »et  up  among  the  goUJ- 


THE  HOLY  WAIL  $V 

6M  slings  that  were  p'nnted  upon  mount 
Gracious.  And  this  he  did  for  two  reasons  :  First* 
to  give  notice  to  Mansou!  that  he  could,  and  would 
yet  be  gracious,  if  they  turned  to  him.  Secondly, 
that  he  might  leave  them  the  more  without  excuse 
should  he  destroy  them,  tfaev  continuing  in  their  re- 
bellion. _h;;\:     ;^\-orV^,r 

So  the  white  flag',ewtih  the  OiVee 'golden  doves  ia 
it,  was  hanged  out  far  two  days  together,  to  give 
them  time  and  space  t.j'considerT^ut  they,  as  was 
hinted  before',^ s  if  they  >yert?Y;ncoricerned,  made  n« 
reply^to  the  favouraile  rJirna!  of  t fie  Prince. 

Then\ne  commanded  and   they    set 
the   red    flag upon1*  that*  *inount  'called -Tta       red 
Mount  Justice.    ,'T^as   the.  red  flag  of  flag    hung 
captain   Judgment,    whose    escutcheon'  jiut. 
was    the  burning   fiery 'Turiiace.    'And 
this  also  stood  waving  before  tbeni i  in  the^wind  for 
several  days  together.  9  But  look   how  they  carried 
it  under  the  white  flag-  when  that  haiig£l*o(itrso 


did  they  also  when  the  red,  one  was,  and  yet  he  took 
no  advantage  of  them.    ?*<  ®K  y\  ^-^atl      w  — 

Then  he  com ipanded  again  tHal  his  ser van t  would 
hangout  the  black  flag  of  defiance  a-       po>    ■** 
gainst  them,  whose  escutcheon  was  the"  The    black 
three  burning  thunderbolts.     But  as  uri-*jlag^i  hung 
concerned   was  Mansoul  at   this,'as  at  out.  ?  " 
those  that  went  before.     But  when-thV       s*  '  m 
Prince  saw  that  neither  mercy  nor^'jutlgmeut,  nor 
execution   of  judgment,  would  or  could  come  near 
the   heart  of  Mansoul,   he  was  touched  with  much 
compunction,  and  said,    "  Surely  this   strange  carri- 
age of  the   town  of  Mansoul  doth  rather  arise  from 
ignorance  of  the  manner,  and  fears  of  war,  than  from 
a  secret  defiance  of  us,  and  abhorrence 
of  their  own  lives  :  or  if  they  know  the  Christ 
manner  of  the  war  of  their  ©wn,  yet  not  makes    not 
the  rites  and  ceremonies  of  the  wars  in  war  as  the 
which  we  are  concerned,  when  I  make  world  does. 
wars  upon  mine  enemy  Diabolus."  XUJ 

Therefore  he  sent  to  the  town  of  Mansoul,"  to  let 
Jbera  ku^w  what  he  meant  by  those  signs  and  cere- 


SE  EiTE  HOLY  WAR. 

monies  of  the  flag,  and  also  to  know  of 
(t  He  sends  to  them  which  of  the  things   they  would 

0  know        if  chuse,    whether   grace   and  mercy,    or 

1  they  would  judgment   and    the    execution   ofjudg- 
4havc  mercy  ment ;  all    this   while  they   kept  their 

-  or  justice. 


tvere  doubled  ; 
they  could.  Diabolus  also  had  pluck'd  np  what 
heart  he  could,  ^encdurat:e  itie'Vown  to  make  re- 
sistance.      v  ~;    y     ;     **?     • 

The  townsmen0  also  made  anWeVto  the  Pnnce*g 
messenger,  in  substance  according  to  that  which 
follows. 

n  G  reat  Sir,   as  to  wjiat  by  your  mes- 
The  towns^'seuger  you^have  s7gnified*to  us,  whether 
folks      aip\\e  tA\\\  accepted/ your  mercy  or  fall  by 
swer.      '•  .,  your^justice,  we  are  bound  by  the  law 
X  \ %  And  custom  of  this  place*,  and  can  give 
jSS  no  pBsWive  answer:  for  it  is  against  the  law, 
government,  and  the  prerogative  royal  of  our  king, 
to  bXfiK€%sitlic  f^«|cevor  f  vf?  without  Mm.     But  this 
we  will  do,  we  will  petition   tfiSt*  our  prince  will 
VSme'^ftfiwn   to  the  wall,  and  there  give  you  such 
'treatment  aVhe  shall  think  fit  and  profitable  for  us.**4 
*i!    When    the  good  Prince   Emmanuel 
Emniakuel    Beard  this  answer,  and  saw  the  slavery 
gricveer  at  and  bondage  of  the  people,  and  how 
the  follynojf  mWch  content  they  were  to  abide  in  the 
Mansoul.  *  chains  of  the  tyrant  Diabolus,  it  grieved 
"    him  a't  the  heart :  and  indeed  when  at 
any  time  he  perceived  that  they  were  contented  un- 
der the  slavery  of  the  giant,  he  would  be  affected 
with  it. 

But  to  return  again   to   our  purpose;  after  the 
town  had  carried  this  news  to  Diabolus,  and  had  told 
him  moreover,  that  the  Prince  that  lay 
Diabolus      in  th«   leaguer  without  the  wall,  waited 
afraid.  upon  him  for  an  answer;  he  refused  and 

huffed  as  well  as  he  could*  but  in  heart 
lie  wssafraid. 

Tkeit  said  he,  I  will  go  down  to  the  gates  my- 


WE  HOLY  WAR.  *$ 

self,  and  give  him  such  an  answer  as  I  think  fit :  so 
he  went  down  to  Mouth-gate,  and  there  addressed 
himself  to  speak  to  Emmanuel,  but  in  such  language 
as  the  town  understood  net,  the  contents  whereof 
were  as  follows : 

"  O  thou  great  Emmanuel,  Lord  of  all  the  world, 
I  know  thee,  that  thou  art  the  son  of  the 
great  Shaddai  ?  wherefore  art  thou  come  His  speech 
to  torment  me,  and  to  cast  me  o'it  of  my  to     the 
possession  ?  This  town   of  Mansoul,  as  Prince. 
ihou  very  well   knowest,   is   mine,   and 
that  by  a  twofold  right.     1.  It  is  mine  by   right  of* 
conquest,  T  won  it  in  the  open  field  :  and  shall  the 
prey  be  taken  from  the  mighty,  or  the  lawful  captive 
be  delivered  ?     2.  This  town  of  Mansoul  is  mine  al- 
so by  their  subjection  :  they  have  opened  the  gate* 
©f  their  town  unto  me,  they  have  sworn 
fidelity  to  me,  and  have  openly  chosen      Heart 
me  to  be  their  king  :  they  havealso  giv- 
en their  castle   into  my  hands ;  yea,  they  have  put 
the  whole  strength  of  Mansoul  under  me. 

"  Moreover,  this  town  of  Mansoul  hath  disavowed 
thee;  yea,  they  have  cast  thy  law,  thy  name,  thy 
image,  and  all  that  is  thine,  behind  -their  br\cks,  and 
have  accepted,  and  set  up  iH  their  room,  my  law, 
my  name,  raiBe  image,  and  all  that  ever  is  miue  : 
ask  else  the  captains,  and  they  will  tell  thee  that 
Mansoul  hath,  in  answer  to  all  their  summons,  shows 
love  and  loyalty  to  me ;  but  always  disdain,  dispute, 
contempt  and  scorn  to  thee  and  thine :  now  thou  art 
the  just  one,  and  the  holy,  aad  shoulds!  do  no  ini- 
quity ;  depart  then  I  pray  thee,  therefore,  from  me^ 
and  leave  me  to  my  just  inheritance  peaceably." 

This  oration  was  made  in  the  language  of  Diabo^ 
lus  himself.  For  although  he  can,  to  every  man, 
speak  in  their  own  language  (else  he  could  not  tempt 
them  all  aa  he  does)  yet  he  has  a  language  proper 
to  himself,  and  it  is  the  language  of  the  infernal 
eave,  or  bteck  pit. 

Wherefore  the  town  of  Mansoul  (poor  hearts)  un- 
derstood him  not,  nor  did  they  see  how  he  crouched 
and  cringe*  while  he  stood  before  Ewmaauei  theft 
price*. 


U  **&*  HOLY  WAR. 

Yea,  they  all  this  while  took  him  to  be  one  of  that 
power  and  force,  that  by  no  means  could  be  resist- 
ed ;  when  fore  while  he  was  thus  intreating  that  he 
might  have  yet  his  residence  there,  and  that  Em- 
manuel would  not  yet  take  it  from  him  by  force,  the 
inhabitants  boasted  even  of  his  valour,  saying,  who 
is  abie  to  m  :ke  war  with  him  ? 
i  Weil,  when  this  pretended  king  had  made  an  end 
of  what  he  would  say,  Emmanuel,  the  golden  Prince, 
stood  up  and  spake ;  the  contents  of  whose  words 
follow : 

"  Thou  deceiving  one,  said  he,  I  have,  in  my  fa- 
thers name,  in  mine  own  name,  and  on  the  behalf, 
and  for  the  good  of  this  wretched  town  of  Mansoul., 
somewhat  to  say  unto  thee.  Thou  pretendest  ft 
right,  a  lawful  right,  to  the  deplorable  town  of  Man- 
soul,  when  it  is  most  apparent  to  all  my  father's 
court,  that  the  entrance  which  thou  hast  obtained  in 
at  the  gates  of  Mansoul,  was  through  thy  li«s  and 
falsehood ;  thou  beliest  my  father,  thou  beliest  his 
law,  and  so  deceivest  the  people  of  Mansoul.  Thou 
pretendest  that  the  people  have  accepted  thee  for 
their  king,  their  captain  and  right  liege  loid  ;  but 
that  also  was  by  the  exercise  of  deceit  and  guile. 
Now  if  lying  willingness,  sinful  craft,  and  all  man- 
ner of  hypocrisy  will  go  in  my  father's  court  (in 
■which  court  thou  must  be  tried)  for  equity  and  right> 
then  will  I  confess  unto  thee  that  thou  hast  made  a 
lawful  conquest.  But  alas  !  what  thief,  what  tyrant, 
what  devil  is  there  that  may  not  conquer  after  this 
sort  ?  but  I  can  make  it  appear,  O  Diabolus,  that 
thou,  in  all  thy  pretences  to  a  conquest  of  Mansoul 
bast  nothing  of  truth  to  say.  Thinkest  thou  this  to 
be  right,  that  thou  didst  put  the  lie  upon  my  father, 
and  madest  him  (to  Mansoul)  the  greatest  deluder 
in  the  world  ?  and  what  sayest  thou  to  thy  pervert- 
ing, knowingly,  the  right  purport  and  intent  of  the 
law?  was  it  good,  also,  that  thou  madest  a  prey  of 
the  innocency  and  simplicity  ©f  the  now  miserac»le 
town  jf  Mansoul  ?  Yeg,  thou  didst  overcome  Man- 
3'  (1  y  promising  to  them  nppiness  in  their  trans- 
gressions against  my'fatiiers  law,  when  th^a  knew- 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  8^ 

est,  and  couldst  net  but  know,  hadst  thou  consulted 
nothing  but  thine  own  experience,  and  that  was  the 
way  to  undo  them.  Thou  hast  also  thyself,  O  thou 
■naster  of  enmity,  of  spite,  defaced  my  father's  image 
in  Mansoul,  and  set  up  thy  own  in  its  place,  to  the 
great  contempt  of  my  father,  the  heightening  of  thy 
sin.  and  to  the  intolerable  damage  of  the  perishing 
town  of  Mansoul. 

"  Thou  hast  moreover,  as  if  all  these  were  but 
little  things  with  thee,  not  only  deluded  and  un- 
done this  place,  but  by  thy  lies  and  fraudulent  car- 
riage, hast  set  them  against  their  own  deliverance. 
How  hast  thou  stirred  them  up  against  my  father's 
captains,  and  made  them  to  fight  against  those  that 
were  sent  of  him  to  deliver  them  from  their  bon- 
dage ?  All  ihese  things  and  very  many  more,  thou 
hast  done  against  thy  light,  and  in  contempt  ©f  my 
father,  and  of  his  law  ;  yea,  and  with  a  design  to 
bring  under  his  displeasure,  for  ever,  the  miserable 
town  of  Mansoul.  1  am  therefore  come  to  avenge 
the  wrong  that  thou  hast  done  to  my  father,  and  to 
deal  with  thee  ^fbr  the  blasphemies  wherewith  thou 
hast  made  poor  Mansoul  blaspheme  his  name.  Yea, 
apon  thy  head,  thou  prince  of  the  infernal  cave, 
will  I  requite  it. 

"  As  for  myself,  O  Diabolus,  I  am  come  against 
thee  by  lawful  power,  and  to  take  by  strength  of 
hand,  this  town  of  Mansoul  out  of  thy  burning  fin- 
gers. For  this  town  of  Mansoul  is  mine,  O  Diabo- 
lus, and  that  by  undoubted  right,  as  all  shall  see, 
that  will  diligently  search  the  most  ancient  and 
most  authentic  records,  and  I  will*  plead  myMitle  to 
it,  to  the  confusion  of  thy  face. 

u  First,  for  the  town  of  Mansoul,  pay  father  hath 
built  and  did  fashion  it  with  his  hand.  The  pal  tee 
also  that  is  in  the  midst  of  that  town,  he  built  it  for 
his  own  delight.  This  town  of  M;nsoul  therefore 
is  my  father's,  and  that  by  the  best  of  titles  ;  and  he 
th  t  gainsays  the  truth  of  th-s  must  lie  against  hig 
soul. 

fcw  Secondly,  O  thou  master  cf  the  lie,  thi»  town  oC 
Mansoul  is  mine. 


38  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

1.  "For  that  I  am  my   father's  heir, 

Heb.  6.   2.  his  first  born,  and  the  only  delight  of 

John  16. 15  his  heart.     I  am  therefore  come  up  a- 

gainst  thee  in    mine  own  right,  even  to 

recover  mine  own  inheritance  out  of  thine  hand. 

2.  "  But  further,  as  I  have  a  right  and  title  to 
Mansoul,  by  being  my  father's  heir,  so  I  have  also, 
by  my  father's  donation.     His  it  was,  and  he  gave 

it  me;  nor  have  I,  at  any  time,  offend- 
\John  17.      ed  my  father,  that  he  should  take  it  from 

me  and  give  it  to  thee.  Nor  have  I 
feeen  forced,  by  playing  the  bankrupt,  to  sell,  or  set 

to  sale,  to  thee,  my  beloved  town  of 
isa.  50,  1.    Mansoul.     Mansoul  is   my  desire,  my 

delight,  and  the  joy  of  my  heart.     But, 

3.  "  Man&oul  is  mine  by  right  of  purchase.  I 
have  bought  it,  O  Diabolus,  I  have  bought  it  to  my- 
self. Now  since  it  was  my  father's  and  mine,  as  I 
was  his  heir ;  and  since  also  I  have  made  it  mine, 
by  virtue  of  a  great  purchase,  it  followeth,  that,  by 
all  lawful  right,  the  town  of  Mansoul  is  mine,  and 
that  thou  art  an  usurper,  a  tyrant,  #ind  traitor,  in 
thy  holding  possession  thereof.  Now  the  cause  of  my 
purchasing  it  was  this  :  Mansoul  had  trespassed  a- 
gainst  my  father;  now   my  father  had   said,  that  in 

the  day  that  they  broke  his  law,  they 
Hat.  5.  18.  should  die.     Now  it  is  more  possible  for 

heaven  and  earth  to  pass  away,  than  for 
my  father  to  break  his  word.  Wherefore,  when  Man- 
aoul  had  sinned  indeed,  by  a  hearkening  to  thy  lie, 

I  put  in  and  became  a  surety  to  my  fa- 
€>  sweet  ther,  body  for  body,  and  sou]  for  soul, 
Prince  Em-  that  I  would  make  amends  for  Man- 
manud.        soul's  transgressions,  and  my  father  did 

accept  thereof.  So  when  the  time  ap- 
pointed was  come,  I  gave  body  for  body,  soul  for 
so«j1,  life  for  life,  blood  for  blood,  and  so  redeemed 
my  beloved  Mansoul. 

4.  "  Nor  did  I  do  this  to  the  halves,  ray  father's 
law  and  justice,  that  were  both  concerned  in  the 
threatening  upon  transgression,  are  both  now  satis- 
fied, and  very  well  content,  that  Mansoul  should  be 
delivered. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  &f 

3.  M  Nor  am  I  come  out  this  day  against  thee, 
but  by  commandment  of  my  father,  'twas  he  that 
said  unto  me,  Go  down  and  deliver  MansouL 

"  Wherefore  be  it  known  unto  thee,  O  thou  foun- 
tain of  deceit,  and  be  it  also  known  to  the  foolish 
town  of  Mansoul,  that  I  am  not  come  against  thee 
this  day  without  my  father. 

"  And  how,  said  the  golden-headed  Prince,  I 
have  a  word  to  the  town  of  Mansoul,"  but  so  social 
.as  mention  was  made,  that  he  had  a  word  to  speak 
to  the  besotted  town  of  Mansoul;  the  gates  were 
double  guarded,  and  all  men  commanded  not  to  give 
him  audience,  so  he  proceeded,  and  said :  "  O  un- 
happy town  of  Mansoul,  I  cannot  but  be  touched 
with  pity  and  compassion  for  thee.  Thou  hast  ac- 
cepted of  Diabolus  for  thy  king,  and  art  become  a 
nurse  *and  minister  of  Diabolians  against  thy  sover- 
eign Lord.  Thy  gates  th#u  hast  opened  to  him, 
but  hast  shut  them  fast  against  me  :  thou  hast  given 
him  a  hearing,  but  hast  stopt  thine  ears  at  ray  cry  ; 
he  brought  thee  to  thy  destruction,  and  thou  didst 
receive  both  him  and  it :  I  am  come  to  thee  bring- 
ing salvation,  but  thou  regardest  me  not.  Besides, 
thou  hast,  as  with  sacrilegious  hands,  taken  thyself 
with  all  that  was  mine  in  thee,  and  hast  given  all 
to  my  foe,  and  to  the  greatest  enemy  my  father  has. 
You  have  bowed  and  subjected  yourselves  to  him* 
you  have  vowed  and  sworn  yourselves  to  be  his. 
Poor  Mansoul !  What  shall  I  do  unto  thee  ?  shall  I 
save  thee?  Shall  I  destroy  thee?  What  shall  I  do 
unto  thee  ?  Shall  1  fall  upon  thee,  and  grind  thee  to 
powder,  or  make  thee  a  monument  of  the  richest 
grace  ?  what  shall  I  do  unto  thee  ?  Hearken  there- 
fore thou  town  of  Mansoul,  hearken  therefore  to  my 
word,  and  thou  shalt  live ;  I  am  merci- 
ful, Mansoul,  and  thou  shalt  find  me  so  $  Cant,  5.  2. 
shut  me  not  out  of  thy  gates. 

"  O  Mansoul,  neither  is  it  my  commission,  nor  in- 
clination at  all   to  do  thee  hurt;  why 
fleest  thou  so' fast  from  thy  friend,  and  Jo.  11.  47. 
atickest  so  close  to  thine  enemy  ?  Indeed  Luke  9.  56. 
1  would  have  thee,  because  it  becomes 


fctf  5PME  HOLY  WAR. 

thee  to  be  sorry  for  thy  sin ;  but  do  not  despair  of 
life,  this  great  force  is  no  hurt  to  thee,  but  to  deliv- 
er thee  from  bondage,  and  to  reduce  thee  to  thy  o- 
bedience. 

"  My  commission  indeed  is,  to  make  a  war  rpou 
Diabolus  thy  king,  and  upon  all  Diaholonians  with 
birr;  for  he  is  the  strong  man  armed,  that  keeps 
ihy  house,  and  I  will  have  him  out ;  his  spoils  I 
Biust  divide,  his  armour  I  must  take  from  him,  his 
hold  I  will  cast  him  out  of,  and  must  make  if  an  ha* 
foitaiion  for  myself.  And  this,  O  Mansoui,  shall  Dia- 
bolus know,  when  he  shall  he  made  to  follow  me  in 
•bains,  and  when  Mansoui  shall  rejoice  to  see  it  so. 

"  I  could,  would  I  now  put  forth  my  might,  cause 
that  forthwith  he  should  leave  you  and  depart ;  but 
1  have  in  mine  heart  so  to  deal  with  him,  as  that 
the  justice  of  the  war,  that  I  shall  make  upr$i  him, 
may  be  seen  and  acknowledged  by  all.  He  hath 
taken  Mansoui  by  fraud,  and  keeps  it  by  violence 
and  deceit,  and  I  will  make  him  bare  and  naked  m 
the  eyes  of  all  observers.- 

"All  my  words  are  true,  I  am  mighty  to  save, 
and  will  deliver  my  Mansoui  out  of  his  hand3."  This 
speech  was  intended  chiefly  for  Mansoui,  but  Man- 
soul  would  not  have  the  hearing  of  it.  They  shut 
up  Ear-gate,  they  barricaded  it  up,  they  set  a  guard 
thereto,  and  commanded  that  no  Mansouloniaa 
should  go  out  to  him,  nor  that  any  from  the  camp 
should  be  admitted  into  the  town  ;  all  this  they  did 
so  horribly  had  Diabolus  mchanted  them  to  do,  and 
seek  to  do  for  him,  against  their  rightful  Lord  and 
Prince;  wherefore  no  man,  nor  voice,  nor  sound  of 
man,  that  belonged  to  the  glorious  host,  was  come 
into  the  town. 

Emmamiel  So  when  Emmanuel  saw  that  Mansoui 
prepares  io  was  thus  involved  in  sin,  he  calls  hisar- 
make  rear  my  together,  since  now  all  his  words 
vpen  Man-  were  despised,  and  gave  out  a  command- 
soul.  ment  throughout  all  his  hosts  to  be  ready 

against  the  time  appointed.  Now,  for- 
asmuch as  there  was  no  way  lawfully  to  take  the 
tewn  of  Mansoui,  but  to  get  in  by  the  gates,  and  at 


.HHK  HOLY  WAR.  8§ 

Ear-gate,  as  the  chief:  therefore  he  commanded 
his  captains  and  commanders  to  bring  their  rams, 
their  slings,  and  their  men,  and  place  them  at  Eye- 
gate  and  Ear-gate,  in  arder  to  his 'taking  the  town. 

When    Emmanuel    had   put   all 
things  in  readiness  to  bid  Diabolus  Diabolus    sends 
battle,  he  sent  again  to  know  of  the  by  the  hands  of 
town  of  Mansoul,  if  in  peaceable  his  servant 
manner   they   would   yield    them-  Mr.  Loth-to- 
selves ;  or  whether  they  were  yet  stoop,  and  hj 
resolved  to  put  him   to  try  the  at-  him  he  pro- 
most  extremity  :    they  then,  toge-  pounds  condi- 
ther  with  Diabolus  their  king,  call-  tions  of  peace. 
«d  a  council  of  war,  and  resolved 
upon  certain  propositions  that  should  be  offered  to 
Emmanuel,  if  they   will  accept  thereof,  so  they  a- 
greed ;  and  then  the  next  was,  who  should   be  sent 
on  this  errand.     Now  there  was  in  the  town  of  Man- 
soul,  a  Diabolian,  and  his  name  was   Mr.   Loth-to- 
stoop,  a  stiff  man  in  his  way,  and  a  great  doer  for 
Diabolus  ;  him  therefore  they  sent,  and  put  iuto  his 
mouth  what  he  should.     So   he  went  and  came  to 
the  camp  to  Emmanuel,  and  when  he  was  come,  a 
time  was  appointed  to  give  him  audience. 

So  at  the  time  he  came,  and  after  a 
Diabolian  ceremony  or  two,  he  thus  be-  Tit.  1.  16. 
gan,  and  said,  "  Great  Sir,  That  it  may 
be  known  unto  all  men,  how  good  natured  a  prince 
my  master  is,   he  hath  sent  me  to  tell 
your  Lordship,  that  he  is  very  willing,    Mark  this. 
rather  than  go  to  war,  to  deliver  up  into 
your  hands  one  half  of  the  town  of  Mansoul :  I  am 
therefore  to  know   if  your  mightiness  will  accept  of 
this  proposition." 

Then  said  Emmanuel,  "  The  whole  i3  mine  by 
gift  and  purchase,  wherefore  I  will  never  lose  oiae 
half." 

Then   said   Mr.  Loth-to-stoop,  "Sir, 
my   master  hath  said,  that  he  will  be  Mark  this. 
content  that  you   shall  be  the  nominal  Luke  13.  2$ 
titular  Lord  of  all,  if  he  shall  possess 
but  a  part." 

8  * 


$0  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Then  Emmanuel  answered,  "  The  whole  is  mind 
really,  not  in  name  and  word  only  :  wherefore  I  will 
be  the  sole  Lord  and  possessor  of  all,  or  none  at  all 
of  Mansoul." 

Then  Mr*  Loth-to-stoop  said  again, 
Mark  this.  "  Sir,  behold  the  condescension  of  my 
Jets  5.  1,  master!  He  says  that  he  will  be  con- 
2,  3,  4,  5.  tent,  if. he  may  but  have  assigned  to 
him  some  place  of  Mansoul,  as  a  place 
to  live  privately  in,  and  you  shall  be  the  Lord  of  the 
rest." 

Then  said  the  golden  Prince,  "  All  that  the  father 
giveth  me  shall  come  to  me :  and  of  all  that  he  hath 
given  me  I  will  lose  nothing,  no  not  a  hoof,  nor  a  hair, 
I  will  not  therefore  grant  him,  no,  not  the  least 
corner  in  Mansoul  to  dwell  in,  1  will  have  all  to 
myself." 

Then  Loth-to-stoop  said  again,  "But,  Sir,  sup- 
pose my  lord  should  resign  the  whute  town  to  you, 
—  only  with  this  proviso,  that  he  some- 
Mark  this,  times,  when  he  comes  into  this  country, 
may,  for  old  acquaintance  sake,  be  en- 
tertained as  a  way-faring  man  two  days,  or  ten  days, 
or  a  month,  or  so  ;  for  may  not  this  small  matter  be 
granted  T 

Then  said  Emmanuel,  "  No,  he  came  as  a  way- 
faring man  to  David,  nor  did   he   stay 
3  Sam.  12.  long  with  him,  and  yet  it  had  like  to 
1,  2,  3,  4,  have  cost  David  his  soul.     I  will   not 
5.  consent  that  ever  he  should  have  any 

harbour  more  there." 
Then  said  Mr.  Loth-to-stoop,  "  Sir,  you  seem  to 
be  very  hard.     Suppose  my  master  should  yield  to 
all  that  your  Lordship  hath  said,  provi- 
Sins      and  ded  that  his  friends  and  kindred  in  Man- 
carnal  lusts  soul,  may  have  liberty  to  trade  in   the 
town,  and  to  enjoy  their  present  dwel- 
lings, may  not  that  be  granted,  Sir." 
Then  said   Emmanuel,  "No,  that  is 
#om.  6. 18.  contrary  to  my   Father's  will;  for  all* 
Cot.  3.  5       and  all  manner  of  Diabolians  that  now 
Gal.  5.  24.  are,  or  that  at  any  time  shall  be  found 


tWR  HOLY  WAR.  gj 

in  Mansoul,  shall  not  only  lose  their  lands  and  lib- 
erties, but  also  their  lives." 

Then  said   Mr.  Loth-to-stoop   again,  "  But,  Sir, 
may  not  my  master  and  great  Lord,  by 
letters,  by  passengers,  by  accidental  op-  Mark  this, 
portuuities  and  the  like,  maintain,  if  he  John  10^8. 
shall  deliver  up  all  unto  thee,  some  kind 
of  old  friendship  with  Mansoul." 

Emmanuel  answered  no,  " No,  by  no  means;  for- 
asmuch as  any  such  fellowship,  friendship,  intimacy, 
or  acquaintance  in  that  way,  sort,  or  mode,  soevor 
maintained,  will  tend  to  the  corrupting  of  Mansoul, 
the  alienating  their  affections  from  me,  and  the  en- 
dangering x)f  their  peace  with  my  father." 

Mr.  Loth-to-stoop  yet  added  further,  saying,  "But 
great  Sir,  since  my   master  hath  many 
friends,  and  those  that  are  dear  to  him  Mark  this9 
in  Mansoul,  may  he   not  if  he  shall  de-  Rom.  6. 12, 
part  from  them,  even  of  his  bounty  and  13. 
good    nature  besiew    upon    them,  as  he 
sees  fit,  some  token  of  his  love  and  kindness,  that  he 
had  for  them  to  the  em\  that  Mansoul,  when  he  is 
gone,  may  look  upon  such  tokens,  of  kindness  once 
received  from   their  old  friend,  and  remtmuer  him 
who  was  once  their  king,  and  the  merry  times  that 
they  sometimes  enjoyed  with  one  another,  while  he 
and  they  lived  ia  peace  together." 

Then  said  Emmanuel,  "  No ;  for  if  Mansou!  come 
to  be  mine,  I  shall  not  admit  of,  nor  consent  that 
there  shall  be  the  least  scrap,  shred,  or  dust  of  Dia- 
bolus  left  behind,  as  tokens  or  gifts  bestowed  upoa 
any  in  Mansoul,  thereby  to  eall  to  remembrance 
the  horrible  communion  that  was  betwixt  them  and 
him." 

"  Well,  Sir,  (said  Mr.  Loth-to-stoop)  I  have  one 
thing  more  to  propound,  and  then  1  am  got  to  the 
end  of  my  commission  :  suppose  that  when  my  mas- 
ter is  gone  from  Mansoul,  any  that  yet 
flhall  live  in  the  town,  should  have  such  Mark  this* 
business  of  high  concerns  to  do,  that  if  2  Kings  U 
they  be  neglected  the  party  shall  be  3,  6,  7. 
undone ;  ami  suppose,  Sir,  that  no  body 


$2  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

can  help  in  that  case  so  well  as  my  master  and  lord, 
may  not  now  my  master  be  sent  for  upon  so  urgent 
a.-  occasion  as  this  ?  Or  if  he  be  not  admitted  into 
the  town,  may  not  he  and  the  persons  concerned, 
meet  in  some  of  the  villages  near  Mansoul,  and 
there  lay  their  heads  together,  and  there  consult  of 
matters  ? 

This  was  the  last  of  those  ensnaring  propositions 
that  Mr.  Loth-to-stoop  had  propounded  to  Emmanu- 
el, on  behalf  of  his  master  Diabolus;   but  Emmanu- 
el  would    not   grant    it;    for   he   said, 

1  Sam.  18.  "There  can  be  no  case,  or  thing,  or 
15.  matter,   fall  out   in  Mansoul   when  thy 

master  shall  be  gone,  that  may  not  be 
solved  by  my  father  ;  besides  it  will  he  a  great  dis- 
paragement to  my   father's  wisdom  and  skill,,  to  ad- 
mit any  from  Mansoul  to  go  out  to  Diabolus  for  ad- 
vice, when  they  are  bid  before,  in  every 

2  Kings  1.  thing  by  prayer  and  supplication,  to  let 
2,  3.  their   request  be    made   knovv»    to   my 

Father.  Further,  this,  should  it  be 
granted,  would  be  to  grant,  that  a  door  should  be 
set  open  for  Diabolus,  and  the  Biahol?ans  in 
Mansoul,-  to  hatch  and  plot,  and  bring  to  pass  trea- 
sonable designs,  to  the  grief  of  my  Father  and  me, 
and  to  the  utter  destruction  of  Mansoul. 

When  Mr  Loth-to-stoop  had  heard  this  answer,  he 

took  his  leave  of  Entmanuel,  and  depart- 
Loth-to-  ed,  saying,  "That  he  would  do  word  to 
stoop  dc-  his  master  concerning  this  whole  affair." 
pat  is.  So  he  departed  and  came  to  Diabolus  to 

Mansoul,  and  told  him  the  whole  of  the 
matter,  and  how  Emmanuel  would  not  admit,  no  not 
by  any  means,  that  he,  when  he  was  once  gone  out, 
should  forever  have  any  thing  more  to  do,  either  in 
or  with  any  that  are  of  the  town  of  Mansoul.  When 
Mansoul  and  Diabolus  had  heard  this  relation  of 
things,  they  with  one  consent,  concluded  to  use 
their  best  endeavours  to  keep  Emmanuel  out  of 
Mansoul,  and  sent  old  Ill-pause,  of  whom  you  have 
heard  of  before,  to  tell  the  prince  and  his  captain 
so.     So  the  old  gentlemen  came  up  to  tho  top  tff 


THE  HOLY  WAR.    '  93 

Bar-gate,  and  called   to  the   camp  for  a  hearing  :- 
who  when  they  gave   audience,  he  said,  I  have  ia 
commandment  from  my  high  lord  to  bid 
you  tell  it  to  your   Prince  Emmanuel,  A  speech 
"  That    Mansoul   and  their  king  are  re-  of  old  Ill- 
solved  to  stand  and  fall  together,  and  that  pause  to 
it  is  in  vain  for  your  Prince  to  think  of  the  camp. 
ever  having  of  Mansoul  in  his  hand,  un- 
less he  can  take  it  by  force."  So  some  went  and  told 
Emmanuel  what  old  Ill-pause*  a  Diabolian,  had  s'^id. 
Then  said  the  Prince,  "  I  must  try  the  power  of  my 
sword,  for  I  will   not  (for  all   the  rebellious  and  re« 
pulses  that  Mansoul  has  made  against  me) 
raise  my  siege  and  depart,  but  will  assu-  Eph.  6.  17. 
redly   take  my  mansoul, ,  and  deliver  it  They  must 
from  the  hand  of  her  enemy."  And  with  fight 
that  he  gave  out  a  commandment,   that  Prepara- 
eaptain  Boanerges,  captain    Conviction,  tions  to  the 
captain  Judgment,  and  captain  Execution  batik. 
should  forthwith  march   up  to  Ear-gate, 
with  trumpets  sounding,   colours   flying,  and  with 
shouting  for  the  battle.    Also  he  would  that  Captain 
Credence  should  join  himself  with  them.     Emmanu- 
el moreover  gave  orders  that  captain  Good-hope  and 
eaptain  Charity   should  draw  themselves   up  before 
Eye-gate.     He   bid  also,   that  the  rest  of  his  Cap- 
tains and  their  men  should  place  themselves,  for  the 
best  of  their   advantage  against    the  enemy,   round 
about  the    town,  and  all    was  done  as  he  had  com- 
manded.    Then  he  bid  that  the  word  should  be  giv- 
en forth,  and  the  word  was  at  that  time,  Emmanuel. 
Then  was  an  alarm  sounded,  and  the  battering  rams 
were  played,  and  the  slings  did  whirl  stones  into  the 
town  amain,  and  thus   the  battle  began.     Now  Di- 
abolus  himself  did  manage  the  townsmen  in  the  war, 
ami  that  at  every  gate;   wherefore   their  resistance 
Avas  the  more  forcible,  hellish,  and  offensive  to  Em- 
manuel.    Thus  was    the  good    Prince  engaged  and 
entertained  by   Diabolus  and   Mansoul   for  several 
days  together.     And  a  sight  worth  Aeing  it  was,  to 
behold  how  the  captains  of  Shaddai  behaved  tfiefll- 
•elves  in  this  war. 


$4  ^HE  HOLY  WAR. 

And  first  for  captain  Boanerges,  (not; 
Boanerges  to  undervalue  the  rest)  he  made  three 
plays  the  most  fierce  assaults,  one  after  another, 
man.  upon  Ear-gate,  to  the  shaking  the  posts 

thereof.      Captain  Conviction  he  alsa 
made  up  as  fast  with  Boanerges  as  possibly  he  could, 
awl  both   discerning  that    the  gate    began  to  yields 
they  commanded  that  the  rams  should  still  be  play- 
ed against  it.     Now  captain  Conviction. 
Conviction     going  up  very   near  to  the    gate,  was 
wounded,      with  great    force    driven  back,  and   re- 
ceived three  wounds  in  the  mouth.  And 
Angels.         those  that  rede  reformadoes,  they  went 
about  to  encourage  the  captains. 
For  the  value  of  the  two  captains   made  mention 
of  before,   the  Prince  sent  for  them  to  his  pavilion, 
and  commanded  that  a  while  they  should  rest  them- 
selves, and  that  with  somewhat   they  should  be  re- 
freshed.    Care  also  was  taken  for  captain  Convic- 
tion, that  he  should  be  healed  of  his    wounds  ;  the 
Prince  also  gave  to  each  of  them  a  chain  of  gold* 
and  bid  them  yet  be  of  good  courage. 

Nor  did  captain  Good-hope,  nor  cap- 
Goodhope  tain  Charity  come  behind  in  this  most 
and  Charity  desperate  fight,  for  they  so  well  did 
play  the  men  behave  themselves  at  Eye-gate,  that 
at  Eye-gate,  they  had  almost  broken  it  quite  open. 
These  also  had  a  reward  from  their 
Prince,  as  also  had  the  rest  of  the  captains,  because 
they  did  valiantly  round  about  the  town. 

In  this  engagement,  several  of  the  officers  of  Dia- 

bolus  were  slain,  and  some  of  the  towns- 

Captain        men  wounded.     For  of  the  officers  there 

Boasting      was  one  captain   Boasting  slain.     This 

slain.  Boasting    thought   that  no  body  could 

have   shaken  the  posts  of  Ear-gate,  nor 

have   shaken  the  heart  of  Diabolus.     Next  to  him 

there  was  one  captain  Secure  slain;  this 

2  ton.  5.  6.  Secure   used  to   say  that  the  blind  and 

lame  in    Mansoui  were  aide  to  keep  the 

Captain  Se-  gates  of  the  town   against  Eramanuei'i 

cure  slain,    army.     This  captain  Stearns  did  C*£? 


&WR  HOLY  WAft.  g£ 

fiction  cleave    down  the  head  with  a  two  handed 
sword,  when  he  received    himself  three   wounds  ir? 
-his  mouth. 

Besirf  s  these  there  Was  one  captain 
Bragman,  a  very  desperate   fellow,  and  Captain 
he  was  captain  over  a  hand  of  those  that  Bragmatl 
threw  fire-brands,  arrows  and  death ;  he  slain. 
also  received,  by   the   hand  ©f   captain 
Good-hope,  at  Eye-gate  a  mortal  wound  in  the  breast* 

There   was    moreover,   one  Mr.   Feeling,  but  he 
was  no  captain,    but  a  great   stickler  to 
encourage    Mansoul  to  rebellion,  he  re-  Mr.  Feel- 
ceived  a  wound  i>i   the  eye  by  the  hand  ing  hurt.  % 
of  one  ofBoauerges's  soldiers,  and  had  by 
the  captain   himself  been  slain,  but  that  he  made  a 
sudden  retreat. 

But  I  never  saw  Will-be-will  so  daunted  in  all  my 
fife,  he   was  not  able  to  do  as  he  was 
wont,  and  some  say  that  he  also  received  WillbewiU 
a  wound  in  the  leg,  and  that  some  of  the  hurt. 
m»n  in  tbe  Prince's  army  have  certain- 
ly seen  htm   limp,  as  he  afterwards    walked  on  the 
wall. 

I  shall  not   give  you  a  particular  ac- 
count of  the   names  of  the  soldiers  that  Many      of 
were  slain  in  the  town,  for  many   were  the  soldiers 
maimed,  and   wounded,    and  slain ;  for  in  Mansoul 
when  they   saw    that  the  posts  of  Ear-  slain. 
gate  did  shake,  and   Eye-gate  was  well 
nigh  broken  quite  open  :  and  also  that  their  captain* 
were  slain  ;  this  took  away  the  hearts  of  many  of  the 
Di     olians,  they  fell   also  by  the    force  of  the  shot 
th,  I  were  sent  by  the  solden  slings  into  the  midst  of 
the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Of  the  townsmen  there  was  one  Love-  Love-no- 
upload,  he  was  a  townsman,  but  a  Di-  rood  woun* 
abolian,    he    also    received    his    mortal  .dcd. 
wound  in  Mansoul,  but  he  died  not  very 
soon, 

vlr.   I  it-pause    also  who   wss  the  man  that  camt 
aio -;g    (rjftj    Diabolus  when  at  first  he 
aaetUjitea   the   taking  of  Mansoul,  he  Ill-pause 


§5  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

woimded.  also  received  a  grevious  wound  in  the 
bead,  some  say  that  his  brain  pan  was 
•racked ;  this  1  have  taken  notice  of,  that  he  was 
never  after  this  able  to  do  that  mischief  to  Mansoul 
as  he  had  done  in  times  past.  Also  old  Prejudice 
and  Mr.  Any-thing  fled. 

Now  when    the   battle  was  over,  the 
The  white     Prince  commanded   that  yet  once  more 
jlaz  hung     the  white  flag  should  be  set  upon  mount 
out  again.     Gracious,  in  sight  of  the  town  of  Man- 
soul,  to  shew  that  yet   Emmanuel  had 
grace  for  the  wretched  town  of  M-msoul. 

When  Diabolus  saw  the  white  flag 
Diabolvs's  hanged  out  again,  and  knowing  that  it 
new  praiiks.  was  not  fcr  him  out  Mansoul,  he  cast  in 
h  s  mind  to  play  another  prank,  to  wit, 
to  see  if  Emmanuel  would  raise  hi*  siege,  and  he 
gone  upon  a  promise  of  reformation.  So  he  comes 
down  to  the  gate  one  evening,  a  good  while  after 
the  sun  was  pone  down,  and  calls  to  speak  with 
Emmanuel,  who  presently  comes  down  to  the  gate^ 
and  Diabolus  saith  unto  him, 

"  Forasmuch  as  thou  make3t  it  appear 

His  speech  by  thy  white  flag,  that   thou  art  wholly 

£©  Emnian-  given  to  peace   and   quiet ;    I    thought 

nel.  meet  to  acquaint  thee,  that  we  are  ready 

to  accept  thereof,  upon  terms  which  thou 

mayest  admit. 

"  I   knowr  that  thou    art  given  to  devotion,   and 

that  holiness  pleases  thee ;  yea,   that  thy  great  end 

in  making  war  upon  Marysoul  is,  that  it  may  be  an 

koly  habitation.     Well,  draw7  off  thy  forces  from  the 

town,  and  1  will   bend  Mansoul  to  thy  bow. 

*  First,  I  woll  lay  down  all  acts  of 
Diabolus  hostility  against  thee,  and  will  be  wil- 
rvould  be  ling  to  become  thy  deputy,  and  will,  »£» 
Emmanu-  I  have  formerly  been  against  thee,  now 
efs  depu-  serve  thee  in  the  town  of  Mansoul.  And 
fry,       and    more  particularly. 

h  would  1.  "  I  will  persuade  Mansoul  to  re- 
turn  re-  ceive  thee  for  tbe«r  Lord,  and  I  know 
former.         that  they  will  do  it  the  sooner  wftem 


TOE  HOLY  WAR.  97 

Ihey  shall  understand  that  I  am  thy  deputy. 

2.  "  I  will  shew  them  wherein  they  have  erred, 
and  that  transgression  stands  in  the  way  to  life.  ^ 

3.  "  I  will  shew  them  the  holy  law  unto  which 
they  must  conform,  even  that  which  they  have  bro- 
ken. 

4.  I  will  press  upon  them  the  necessity  of  a  re- 
formation according  to  thy  law. 

5.  "  And  moreover,  that  none  of  these  things 
may  fail,  I,  myself,  at  my  own  proper  cost  and  charge 
will  set  up,  and  maintain  a  sufficient  ministry  be- 
sides lecturers  in  Mansoul. 

6.  *  Thou  shalt  receive,  as  a  token  of  our  sub- 
jection to  thee,  continually,  year  by  year,  what  thou 
shalt  think  fit  to  lay  and  levy  upon  us,  in  token  of 
our  subjection  to  thee." 

Then  said  Emmanuel  to  him,  "  O  full 
of  deceit,  how  moveable  are  thy  ways  !  The  answer. 
how  often   hast   thou  changed  and  re- 
changed,  if  so  be  thou  mightest  still  keep  possession 
of  Mansoul,  though,  as  has  been  plainly  declared 
before,  I  am  the  right  heir  thereof:  often  hast  thon 
made  thy  proposals  already,  nor  is  this  last  a  whit 
better  than  they.  And  failing  to  deceive 
when  thou  shewedst  thyself  in  thy  black,  2  Cor.  II, 
thou  hast  now  transformed  thyself  into  1 4. 
an  angel  of  light,  and  wouldest,  to  de- 
ceive, be  now  as  a  minister  of  righteousness. 

"But  know  now,  O  Diabolus!  that 
nothing  must  be  regarded  that  thou  canst  Diabolus 
propound,  for  nothing  is  done  by  thee  has  no  con- 
hut  to  deceive ;  thou  neither  hast  con-  science     to 
science  to  God,  nor  love  to  the  town  of  God,      nor 
Mansoul ;  whence  then  should  these  thy  love     to 
sayings  arise  but  from  sinful  craft  and  Mansoul. 
deceit  ?  He  that  can,  of  list  and  will, 
propound  what  he  pleases,  and  that  wherewith  he 
may  destroy  them  that  believe  him,  is  to  be  aban- 
doaed  with  all  (hat  he  shall  say.     But  if  righteous* 
ness  be  such  a  beauty-spot  in  thine  eyes  now,  how 
is  it  that  wickedness  was  so  closely  stuck  to  by  thee 
before  ?  But  this  is  by  the  by. 
9 


f  z  ME  HOLY  WAR. 

"  Thou  talkest  now  of  a  reformation  in  Mansoul, 
and  that  thou  thyself,  if  I  will  please,  will  be  at  the 
head  of  that  reformation;  all  the  while  knowing 
that  the  greatest  proficiency  that  man  can  make  in 
the  law,  and  the  righteousness  thereof,  will  amount 
to  no  more  for  the  taking  away  of  the  curse  from 
Mansoul,  than  just  nothing  at  all :  for  a  law  being 
broken  by  Mansoul,  that  had  before,  upon  a  suppo- 
sition of  the  breach  thereof,  a  curse  pronounced 
against  him  for  it  of  God,  can  never,  by  the  obey- 
JSTe  knows  ing  of  the  law,  deliver  himself  there- 
ihat  that  from.  (To  say  nothing  of  what  a  refor- 
TviU  do  no  matioa  is  like  to  be  set  up  in  Mansoul, 
good  which  when  the  devil  is  become  the  corrector 
yet  he  pro-  of  vice.)  Thou  knowest  that  all  that 
pounds  for  thou  hast  now  said  in  this  matter,  is 
the  health  nothing  but  guile  and  deceit,  and  is  as 
of  Mansoul.  it  was  the  first,  so  is  it  the  last  card  thou 
hast  to  play.  Many  there  be  that  do 
soon  discern  thee  when  thou  shewe3t  them  thy  clo- 
ven foot ;  but  in  thy  white,  tty  light,  and  in  thy 
transformation  thou  art  seen  but  of  a  few  ;  but  thou 
shalt  not  do  tki3  with  my  Mansoul,  O  Diabolus,  for 
I  do  still  love  my  Mansoul. 

"  Besides,  I  am  not  come  to  put  Mansoul  upon 
works  to  live  thereby,  should  I  do  so,  I  should  be 
like  unto  thee,  but  I  am  come  that,  by^me,  and  by 
what  I  have  and  shall  do  for  Mansoul,  they  may,  to 
my  Father,  be  reconciled,  though  by  their  sin  they 
have  provoked  him  to  anger,  and  though  by  the 
law  they  cannot  obtain  mercy. 

"  Thou  talkest  of  subjecting  of  this 
All  things  town  to  good,  when  none  desireth  it  ai 
must  be  thy  hands.  I  am  sent  by  my  Father  to 
new  in  possess  it  myself,  and  to  guide  it  by  the 
Mansoul  skilful ness  of  my  hands  into  such  a  con- 
formity to  him  as  shall  be  pleasing  in  his 
sight.  I  will  therefore  possess  it  myself;  I  will  dis- 
possess and  cast  thee  out;  I  will  set  up  mine  own 
standard  in  the  midst  of  them ;  I  will  also  govern 
them  by  new  laws,  new  officers,  new  motives,  and 
B8W  ways  5  yea,  I  will  pull  down  this  town  an* 


'ULE  HOLY  WAR.  §§ 

build  it  again,  and  it  shall  be  as  though  it  had  not 
been,  and  it  shall  then  be  the  glory  of  the  whole 
universe. 

When  Diabolus  heard  (his,  and  per- 
ceived that  he  was  discovered  in  all  his  Diabolus 
deceits,  he  was  confounded  and  utterly  confounded. 
put  to  a  nonplus  ;  but  having  in  himself 
the  fountain  of  iniquity,  rage  and  malice,  against 
both  Shaddai  and  his  son,  and  the  beloved  town  of 
Mansoul,  what  doth  he  but  strengthen  himself  what 
lie  could  to  give  fresh   battle  to  the  noble  Prince 
Emmanuel !  So  then  now   we  must   have  another 
fight  before  the   town  of  Mansoul  is  ta- 
ken.    Come  up  then  to  the  mountains  New  prep- 
ye  that  love  to  see  military  actions,  and  arations 
behold,  by  both  sides,  how  the  sad  fatal  for  to  fight 
blow   is  given,  while  one  seeks  to  hold 
and  the  ether  seeks  to  make  himself  master  of  the 
famous  town  of  Manspul. 

Diabolus  therefore  having  withdrawn  himself 
from  the  wall  to  his  force  that  was  in  the  heart  of 
the  town  of  Mansoul,  Emmanuel  also  returned  to 
the  camp;  and  both  of  them,  after  their  diverse 
ways,  put  themselves  in  a  posture  fit  to  bid  battle 
one  to  another. 

Diabolus,  as  filled  with  despair  of  re- 
taining in  liis  hands  the  famous  town  of  Diabolus 
Mansoul,  resolved  to  do  what  mischief  despairs  of 
he  could,  if  indeed  he  could  do  any,  to  holding    of 
the  army  of  the  Prince,  and  to  the  fa-  Mansoul^ 
mous  town  of  Mansoul ;  for  alas,  it  was  and    there- 
not  the  happiness  of  the  silly  town  of  fore      cost- 
Mansoul  that  was  designed  by  Diabolus,  trives  to  do 
but  the  utter  ruin  and  overthrow  there-  what    mis- 
of;  as  now  is  enough  in  view;  where-  chief       he 
fore  he  commands  his  officers  that  they  can.    Malt. 
should  then,  when  they   see  that  they  9.  26,  27. 
could  hold  the  town  no  longer,  do  it 
what  harm  and  mischief  they  could,  rendering  and 
tearing  of  men.,  women  and  children  ;  for,  said  he 
we  had  better  quite  demolish  the  place,  and  leave  it 
like  a  ruinous  heap,  than  to  leave  that  it  may  be  an 
habitation  for  Emmanuel. 


J.G&  r£HE  HOLY  WAR* 

Emmanuel  again  knowing  that  the  next  battle 
would  issue  in  his  being  made  master  of  the  place* 
gave  out  a  royal  commandment  to  all  his  officers^ 
high  capt?>'ns,  and  men  of  war,  to  be  sure  to  shew 
themselves  men  of  war  against  Diabolus  and  all 
Diabolians ;  but  favourable,  merciful  and  meek  to 
all  the  old  inhabitants  of  Mansoul ;  bend  therefore, 
said  the  noble  Prince,  the  hottest  front  of  the  battle 
against  Diabolus  and  his  men. 

So  the  day  being  come,  the  command 
The  lallle  was  given,  and  the  Prince'?  men  did 
tjoiiud,  ami  bravely  stand  (o  their  arms,  and  did,  as 
they  fight  en  before,  bend  their  main  force  against 
bGth  sides  Ear-gate  and  Eye-gate.  The  word  was 
fiercely.        then,  Mansoul  is  won;  so  they   made 

their  assault  upon  the  town.  Diabolus 
also,  as  fast  as  he  could,  with  the  main  of  nis  power, 
made  resistance  from  within,  and  his  high  lords,  and 
chief  captains,  for  a  time,  fought  very  cruelly  against 
the  Prince's  array. 

But  after  three  or  four  notable  charges 
Ear-gale  by  the  Prince  and  his  noble  captains, 
broken  open.  Ear-gate  was  broken  open,  and  the  bars 

and  bolts,  wherewith  it  was  used  to  be 
fast  shut  up  against  the  Prince,  was  broken  into  a 
thousand  pieces.  Then  did  the  Prince's  trumpets 
sound,  tfye  captains  shout,  the  town  shake,  and  Dia- 
bolus retreat  to  his  soul.     Well,  when  the  Priuce's 

forces  had  broken  open  the  gate,  himself 
The  Printe  came  up  and  did  set  his  throne  in  it ;  also 
Ms  stand-  he  set  hie  standard  thereby  upon  a  mount 
ard  set  up,  that  before,  by  his  men,  was  cast  up  to 
and  the  place  the  mighty  slings  thereon.  The 
slings  are  naount  was  called  mount  Hear-well,  there 
plaited  still  therefore  the  Prince  abode,  to  wit,  hard 
at  the  cos-  by  the  going  in  at  the  gate.  He  com- 
tle.  manded  also  that  the  golden  slings  should 

yet  be  played  upon  the  town,  especially 
against  the  castle,  because,  for  shelter,  thither  was 
Diabolus  retreated.  Now  from  Ear-gate  the  street 
was  straight,  even  to  the  house  of  Mr.  Recorder,  that 
so  was  before  Diabolus  took  the  town,  and  hard  by 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  lit 

iiis  house  stood  the  castle,  which  Diabolus,  for  a  long 
time,    hail  made   his  irksome  den.     The   captains 
therefore  did  quickly  clear  that  street,  by  the  use  of 
their  slings,  so  that  way  was  made  up  to  the  heart  of 
the  town.     Then  did  the  Prince  command  that  cap- 
tain Boanerges,  captain   Conviction,   and   captain 
Judgment  should  forthwith  march  up  to  the  town  to 
the  old  gentleman's  gate.^    Then  did  ?  CmdenC€m 
the  captains,  in  most  warlike  manner,  - 
enter  into  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  marching  in 
with  flying  colours,  they  came  up  to  the  Recorder's 
heuse,  and  that  was  almost  as  strong  as 
was    the   castle.     Battering  rams  they  They  go  up 
took  also  with  them  to  plant  against  the  to  the   Re* 
castle  gates.     When  they  were  come  to  corder's 
the  house  of  Mr.  Conscience,  they  knock-  house. 
ed  and  demanded  entrance.     Now  the 
old  gentleman  not  knowing,  as  yet,  fully  They      de- 
their  design,  kept  his  gates  shut  all  the  rnanded  m* 
time  of  this  fight ;  wherefore  Boanerges  trance. 
demanded  entrance  at  his  gates,  and  no 
man  making  answer,  he  gave  it  one  stroke  with  the 
head  of  a  ram,  and  this  made  the  old  gentleman 
shake,   and  his  house  to  tremble  and  totter.     Then 
eame   Mr.   Recorder  down  to  the  gate ;  and  as  he 
could,  with  quivering  lips,  he  asked  who  was  there  ? 
Boanerges  answered,   "  We  are  the   captains  and 
commanders  of  the  great  Shaddai,  and  of  the  blessed 
Emmanuel  his  son,  and  we  demand  possession  of  your 
house  for  the  use  of  our  noble  Prince.5'     And  with 
that  the  battering  rams  gave  the  gate  another  shake  : 
thi?  made  the  old  gentleman  tremble  the  more,  yet 
durst  he  not  but  open  the  gate  ;  then  the  King's  forces 
marched  in,   namely,  the  three  brave 
captains  mentioned   before.     Now  the  They  go  in. 
Recorder's  house  was  a  place  of  much 
•onveniency  for  Emmanuel,  not  only  because  it  was 
Bear  to  the  castle  and  strong,  but  also  because  it  was 
large,  and   fronted  the  castle,   the  den  where  now 
Diabolus  wai,  for  he  was  now  afraid  to  come  out  of 
his  hold.  As  for  Mr.  Recorder,  the  cap- 
tains carried  it  very  reservedly  to  hiro>  They      ic 
9* 


102  THE  HOLY  WATt. 

keep  them-  as  yet  he  knew  nothing  of  the  great  de- 
selves  re-  signs  of  Emmanuely  so  that  he  did  not 
served  from  know  what  judgment  to  make,  nor  what 
the  Record-  would  be  the  end  of  such  thundering 
cr.  beginnings.  It  was  also  presently  noised 

in  the  town,  how  the  Recorder's  house 
was  possessed,  his  rooms   taken  up,  and  his  palace 

made  the  seat  of  the  war ;  and  no  soon- 
His  house  er  was  it  noised  abroad,  but  they  took 
the  seat  the  alarm  as  warmly,  and  gave  it  out  to 
if  war.         others  of  his  friends  ;  and,  you  know,  as 

a  snowball  loses  nothing  by  rolling,  so  in 
a  little  time  the  w  hole  town  was  possessed,  that  they 
must  expect  nothing  from  the  Prince  but  destruc- 
tion :  and  the  ground  of  the  business  was  this  ;  The 
Recorder  was  afraid,  the  Recorder  trembled,  and 
the  captains  carried  it  strangely  to  the  Recorder ; 
so  many  came  to  see,  but  when  they,  with  their 
©wn  ej^es,  did  behold  the  captains  in  the  palace, 
and  their  battering  rams  ever  playing  at  the  castle 
gates,  to  beat  them  down,  they  were  riveted  in  their 

fears,  and  it  made  them  as  in  amaze. 
The  office  And,  as  I  said,  the  man  of  the  house 
ff  Can-  would  increase  all  this,  for  whoever 
science  came   I©  him,  or  discoursed  with  him, 

wh&m  he  is  nothing  would  he  talk  of,  tell  them,  or 
awakened,     hear,  but  that  death  and  destruction  now 

attended  Mansoul. 
"  For  (quoth  the  old  gentleman)  you  are  all  of 
you  sensible,  that  we  all  have  been  traitors  to  the 
once  despised,  but  now  famously  victorious  and  glo- 
rious Prince  Emmanuel.  For  he  now,  as  you  see, 
doth  aot  only  lie  in  close  siege  about  us,  but  hath 
forced  his  entrance  in  at  our  gates;  moreover,  Dia- 
bolus  flees  before  him,  and  he  hath,  as  you  behold, 
Made  of  my  house  a  garrison  against  the  castle, 
where  he  is.  I,  for  my  part,  have  transgressed  great- 
ly ,  and  he  that  is  clean  'tis  well  for  him.  But,  I  say, 
I  have  transgressed  greatly,  in  keeping  of  silence 
when  I  should  have  spoken,  and  in  perverting  of 
justice  when  I  should  have  executed  the  same. 
True,  1  kave  suffered  something  at  the  hand  of  Dia- 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  10$ 

bolus,  for  taking  part  with  (he  laws  of  king  Shad- 
dai;  but  that,  alas!  what  will  that  do?  will  that 
make  compensations  for  the  rebellions  and  treasons 
that  I  have  done,  and  have  suffered,  without  gain — 
saying,  to  be  committed  in  the  town  of  Mansoul  ? 
O,  tremble  to  think  what  will  be  the  end  of  this  so 
dreadful  and  so  direful  a  beginning?" 

Now  while  these  brave  captains  were  The   brave 
thus  busy  in  the  house  of  the  old   Re-  exploits   of 
corder,  captain  Execution  was  as  busy  in  captainEx- 
the  other  parts  of  the  town,  in  securing  ccution. 
the  back  streets,  and  the  walls.    He  also 
hunted  the  lord  Willbewill  sorely,  he  suffered  him 
not  to  rest  in  any  corner ;  he  pursued  him  so  hard, 
that  he   drove  his    men    from  him,   and  made  him 
glad  to  thrust  his  head  into  a  hole.  Also,  this  mighty 
warrior  did  cut  three  of  my  lord  Willbe- 
•wilPs  officers  down  to  the  ground;  one  OldPre- 
was  old  Mr.  Prejudice,  he  had  his  crown  judice. 
crack'd  in  the  mutiny  ;  this  man  was 
made,  by  lord  Willbewill,  keeper,  of  Ear-gate,  and 
fell  by  the  hands  of  captain   Execution. 
There  was  one  Mr.  Backward-to-all-but-  Backward- 
naught,  and  he  also  was  one  of  lord  Will-  to-all~but- 
be  will's  officers,  and  was  the  captain  of  naught 
the  two  gun3  that  once  were  mounted  slain. 
on  the  top  of  Ear-gate,  he  also  was  cut 
down  to  the   ground  by  (he  hands  of  captain  Exe* 
cution.     Besides  these  two,  there  was  a- 
nother,  a  third,  and   his  name  was  cap-  Treacher- 
tain    Treacherous,  a  vile  man  this  was,  oris  slain. 
but  one  that   Willbewill  did  put  a  great 
deal  of  confidence  in,  but  him  also  did  this  captaia 
Execution  cut  down  to  the  ground  with  the  rest. 

He  also  made  a  very  great  slaughter  among  my 
lord  WillbewilPs  soldiers,  killing  many  that  were 
stout  and  sturdy,  and  wounding  many  that,  for  Dia- 
bolus,  were  nimble  and  active.  But  all  these  were 
Diabolians,  there  was  not  a  man,  a  native  of  Man- 
soul,  hurt. 

Other  feats  of  war  were  also  likewise  performed 
by  other  of  the  captains ;  as  at  Eye-gate,  where 


1#4  THE  HOLT  WAR. 

captain  Good-hope  and  captain  Charity  had  charge, 

was  great  execution  done,  for  the  cap- 
Haptain  tain  Goodhope,  with  his  own  hands, 
Goodnope  slew  one  captain  Blindfold,  the  keeper 
doth  slay  of  the  gate;  this  Blindfold  was  captain 
eaptain  of  a  thousand  men,  and  they  were  they 
Blindfold,     that  fought  with  mauls  ;  he  also  pursued 

his  men,  slew  many,  and  wounded  more 
than  made  the  rest  hide  their  heads  in  corners. 

There  was  also  at  the  gate  Mr.  111- 
And  Old  pause,  of  whom  you  have  heard  before, 
Ill-pause.      he   was  an  old    man,  aad  had  a  beard 

that  reached  down  to  his  girdle,  the 
same  was  he  that  was  orator  to  Diabolus,  he  did 
much  mischief  in  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  fell  by 
the  hand  of  captain  G  oodhope. 

What  shall  I  say,  the  Diabolians  in  these  days 
lay  dead  in  every  corner,  though  too  many  yet  were 
alive  in  Mansoul. 

Now  the  old  Recorder,  and  my  lord 
The  old  Understanding,  with  some  others  of  the 
townsmen  chief  of  the  town,  to  wit,  such  as  knew 
meet  and  they  must  stand  and  fall  with  the  famous 
consult.         town  of  Mansoul,  came  together  upon  a 

day,  and  after  consultation  had,  did 
jointly  agree  to  draw    up  a   petition,  and  to  send  it 

to  Emmanuel,  now  while  he  sat  in  the 
Tite  tanm  gate  of  Mansoul.  So  they  drew  up  their 
do  petition,  petition  to  Emmanuel,  the  contents 
and  are  an-  whereof  were  this ;  "  That  they,  the  old 
swcredwlih  inhabitants  of  the  deplorable  town  of 
silence.         Mansoul,  confessed  their  sin,   and  were 

sorry  that  they  had  offended  his  prince- 
ly majesty,  and  prayed  that  he  would  spare  their 
lives." 

Unto  this  petition  he  gave  no  answer  at  all, 
The  castle  and  that  did  trouble  them  yet  so  much 
gate  broke  the  more.  N©w  all  this  while  the 
cpen.  captains,  that  were  in  the  Recorder's 

house,  were  playing  with  the  battering 
rams  at  the  gates  of  the  castle,  to  beat  them  down. 
Soi  after  sonae  time,  labour  and  ifavil^  the  gate  rf 


WE  H^LY  WAR.  10$ 

the  castle,  that  was  called  Impregnable,  w23  beatea 
epen,  and  broke  into  several  splinters,  and  so  a  way 
made  to  go  up  to  the  hold  ia  which  Biaholus  h&dL 
hid  himself.  Then  was  tidings  sent  down  to  Ear- 
gate,  for  Emmanuel  still  abode  there,  to  let  hint 
know,  that  a  way  was  made  in  at  the  gates  of  tho 
eastle  of  Mansoul :  but  oh !  how  the  trumpets,  at 
the  tidings,  souuded  throughout  the  Prince's  camp, 
for  that  now  the  war  was  so  near  an  end,  and  Man- 
soul  itself  of  being  set  free. 

Then  the  prince  arose  from  the  place 
where  he  was,  and  took  wilh  him  such  Emmanuel 
©f  his  men  of  war  as  were  fittest  for  that  marches 
expedition,   and   marched  up  the  street  into  Man* 
ef  Mansoul  to  the  old   Recorder's  house,  soul. 

Now  the  Prince  himself  was  clad  all 
in  armour  of  gold,  and  so  he   marched  up  the  town 
with  his  standard  borne  before  him  ;  but  he  kept  his 
©ountenauce  much  reserved  all  the  way  as  he  wentf 
so  that  the  people  could   not   tell    how  together  to 
themselves  love  or  hatred  by  his  looks.     Now  as  he 
marched  up  the   street,   the  townfoiks   came  out  at 
every  door  to  see,  and  could  not  but  be  taken  with 
his  person   and  the  glory    thereof,  but  wondered  at 
the  reservedn -ess  of  his  countenance ;  for,  as  yet,  he 
spake  more  to  them  by  his  actions   and  works  than 
he  did  by  words  or  smiles.    Buf  also  poor 
Mansoul,  (as  in  such  cases  all  are  apt  to  How  they 
do)    they   interpreted    the  carriages    of  interpret 
Emmanuel  to  them,  as  did  Joseph's  bre-  Emmanu- 
thren  his  to  them,    even   all   the    quite  eVs  car- 
contrary    way  :    For,  thought   they,  if  riagcs. 
Emmanuel  loved  us,  he  would  shew  it  to 
us,  by  word  or  carriage,  but  none  of  these  he  doth, 
therefore  Emmanuel  hates  us.     Now  if  Emmanuel 
hates  us,  then  Mansoul  shall  be  slain,  then  Mansoul 
shall  become  a  dunghill.     They  knew  that  they  had 
transgressed  his  Father's  law,  and  that  against  him 
they  had  been  in  with  Diabolus  his  enemy.     They 
also  knew  that  the  Prince  Emmanuel  knew  all  this, 
for  they   were   convinced  that  he  was   an  angel  of 
God,  to  know  all   things  that  are  done  in  the  earth, 


106       ,  r^HE  HOLY  WAR. 

And  this  made  them  think  that  their  condition  was 
miserable,  and  that  the  good  Prince  would  make 
them  desolate. 

And  thought  they,  what  time  so  fit  to  do  this  in  as 
now,  when  he  has  the  bridle  of  Mansoul  in  his  hand. 
And  this  I  took  special  notice  of,  that  the  inhabitants, 
notwithstanding  all  this,  could  not:  no,  they  could 
not,  when  they  see  him  march  through  the  town, 
but  cringe,  bowT,  bend,  and  were  ready  to  lick  the 
dust  ©f  his  feet.  They  also  wished,  a  thousand  times 
over,  that  he  would  become  their  Prince  and  Cap- 
tain, and  would  become  their  protection.  They 
would  also,  one  to  another,  talk  of  the  comeliness  of 
his  person,  and  how  much  for  glory  and  valour  he 
outstrip!  the  great  ones  of  the  world ;  but,  poor 
hearts,  as  to  themselves  their  thoughts  would  change, 
and  go  upon  all  manner  of  extremes.  Yea,  througk 
the  working  of  them  backward  and  forward,  Man- 
soul  became  as  a  ball  tossed,  and  as  a  rolling  thing 
before  the  whirlwind. 

Now  when  he  was  come  to  the  castle 
He  comes  gates,  he  commanded  diabolus  to  appear 
up  to  the  and  to  surrender  himself  into  his  hands. 
castle^  and  But,  ho,  how  loth  was  the  beast  to  ap- 
commands  pear !  how  he  stuck  at  it !  how  he 
Diabolus  to  shrunk !  how  he  cringed !  yet  out  he 
surrender  came  to  the  Prince  ;  Then  Emmanuel 
himself.        commanded,  and  they  took  Diabolus  and 

bound  him  fast  in  chains,  the  better  fo 
reserve  him  to  the  judgment  that  he  had  appointed 
for  him  But  Diabolus  stood  up  to  entreat  for  him- 
self, that  Emmanuel  would  not  send  him  into  the 
deep,  but  suffer  him  to  depart  out  of  Mansoul  in 
peace. 

When  Emmanuel  had  taken  him,  and 
Heista-  bound  him  m  chains,  he  led  him  into 
ken  and  the  market  place,  and  there,  before 
bound  in  Mansoul,  stript  him  of  his  armour  in- 
chains.         which  he  boasted  so  much  before.    This 

now  was  one  of  the  acts  of  triumph  of 
Emmanuel  over  his  erurny,  and  all  the  while  that 
the  giant  was  stripping,  the  trumpets  of  the  goide» 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  1©? 

Prince  did  sound  amain ;  the  captains  also  shouted, 
and  the  soldiers  did  sing  for  joy. 

Then  was  Mausoul  called  upon,  to 
behold    the   beginning  of  Emmanuel's  Mansoul 
triumph  over  him  in  whom  they  had  so  must  be- 
much   trusted,   and   of   whom   they    so  hold  it. 
much  had  boasted  in  the  days  when  he 
flattered  them. 

Thus  having  made  Diabolus  naked  in 
the   eyes  of  Mansoul,  and  before    the  Eph.  A. 
commanders  of  the  Prince;  in  the  next  He  is  bound 
place  he  commands  that  Diabolus  should  to  his  char- 
be   bound  with    chains    to   his  chariot  ioi  tvkeds. 
wheels.       Then    leaving    some  of  his  The  Prince 
forces,   to  wit,  captain  Boanerges    and  rides        in 
captain  Conviction,  as  a  guard  for  the  triumph    o- 
castie  gates,    that  resistance  might   be  ver   him  in 
made  on  his  behalf,  (if  any  that  hereto-  the  sight  of 
fore  followed  Diabolus  should  make  an  Mansoul. 
attempt  to  possess  it)  he   did  ride  in  tri- 
umph ©ver  him  quite  through  the  town  of  Mansoul, 
and  go  out  at  (and  before)  the  gate  called  Eye-gate, 
to  the  plain  where  hi3  camp  did  Ho. 

But  you  cannot  think,  unless  you  had  been  there 
as  I  was,  what  a  shout  there  was  in  Emmanuel's 
camp,  when  they  saw  the  tyrant  bound  by  the  hand 
•f  the  noble  Princ-e,  and  tied  to  his  chariot  wheels. 

And  they  said,  'He  hath  led  captivity 
captive,  he   hath  spoiled  principalities  They  sing* 
and  powers,  Diabolus  is  subjected  to  the 
power  of  his  sword,  and  made  the  subject  of  all  de- 
cision.' 

Those  also  that  rode  reformndoes,  and 
that  came  clown  to  see  the  battle,  they  The  refiw- 
shouted  with  that  greatness  of  voice,  and  madoesjoy, 
sung   with    such  melodious   notes,   that 
ihey  caused  them  that  dwell  in  the  high-  Luke-  15. 
est  orbs  to  open   their  windows,   put  out  7-  10. 
their  heads,  and  look   down  to  see  the 
cause  of  that  glory. 

The  to  vnsm  \  also,  so  many  of  them  The  men  of 
as  saw  thjs  si^hfc  were,  as  it  were,  astoa-  Mansoul 


$$%  mm  HOLY  WAR. 

taken  with     istted,   while  they   looked    betwixt  tht 


eartn 
tefl  wt 


that  would  be  the  issue  of  things  as 
to  them,  all  things  were  done  in  such  excellent  me- 
thods, and  I  cannot  tell  how  ;  but  things  in  the  ma- 
nagement of  them  seemed  to  cast  a  smile  towards  the 
town,  so  that  their  eyes,  their  heads,  their  hearts, 
and  their  minds,  and  all  that  they  had  were  take* 
and  held  while  they  observed  Emmanuel's  order. 

So  when  the  brave  Prince  had  finished  this  part 
of  his  triumph  over  Diabolus  his  foe,  he  turned  hint 
off  in  the  mi#!st  of  his  contempt  and  shame,  having 
given  him  a  charge  no  more  to  .be  a  possessor  of 
Maasoul.  Then  went  he  from  Emmanuel,  and  out 
©f  the  midst  of  his  camp,  to  inherit  the  parched  pla- 
ces in  a  salt  land,  seeking  rest,  but  finding  none. 
.»  .  ,„  ..  Now  captain  Boanerges  and  captaia 
'  Conviction  were  both  of  them  men  of 
great  majesty,  their  faces  were  like  the  faces  of 
lions,  and  their  wards  like  the  roaring  of  the  sea  ; 
and  they  still  quartered  in  Mr.  Conscience's  house,  of 
whom  mention  was  made  before.  When  therefore 
the  high  and  mighty  Prince  had  thus  far  finished  his 
triumph  over  Diabolus,  the  townsmen  had  more 
leisure  to  view  and  behold  the  actions  of  these  no- 
ble captains.  But  the  captains  carried  it 
The  carri-  with  that  terror  and  dread  in  all  that 
mge  of  Bo-  they  did  (and  you  may  be  sure  that  they 
anerges  had  private  instructions  so  to  do)  that 
and  of  they  kept  the  town  in  continual  heart- 
captain  aching,  and  caused,  in  their  apprehen- 
€onviction  sien,  the  well-being  of  Mansoul  for  the 
do  crush  future  to  hang  in  doubt  before  them,  so 
the  spirit  of  that,  for  some  considerable  time,  they 
Mansoul.  neither  knew  w  hat  rest,  or  ease,  or  peace, 
or  b©pe  meant. 
Nor  did  the  Prince  himself,  as  yet,  abide  in  the 
town  of  Mansoul,  but  in  h>s  royal  pavilion  in  the 
eamp,  and  in  the  midst  of  his  father's  forces.  So,  at 
a  time-conv  dent,  he  sent  special  orden 
The  Prince  to  captain  Boanerges  to  summon  Man- 
*9mm*tuk>   soul,  the  wiw4e  <rf  the  townsmen  into  tfee 


£H£  HOLY  WAR.  lit 

eastle-yard,  and  then  and  there,    before  and      the 
their  faces  to  take  my  lord  Understand-  captains 
ing,  Mr.  Conscience,  and  that  notable  put  the 
•ne  the  lord   Willbewill,  and  put  them  three 
all  three  in  ward,  and  that  they  should  set  chief  of 
a  strong  guard  upon  them  there,   until  Mansoul 
his  pleasure  concerning  them    were  fur-  in  ward, 
ther  known.     The  which  orders,  when 
the  captains   had  put  them  in    execution,  make  n# 
small  addition  to  the  fears  of  the  town  of  Mansoul : 
for  now,  to  their  thinking,  were  their  former  fears 
©f  the  ruin  of  Mansoul  confirmed.    Now,  what  death 
they  should  die,  and  how  long  they  should  be  in  dy- 
ing, was  that  which  most  perplexed  their  heads  and 
hearts  ;  yea,  they  were  afraid  that  Emmanuel  would 
command  them  all  into  the  deep^  the  place  that  the 
prinee  Diabolus  was  afraid  of:  for  they  knew  that 
they  had  deserved  it.     Also,  to  die  by  the  sword,  in 
the  face  of  the  town,  and  in  the  open  way  of  dis- 
grace, from  the  hand  of  so  good  and  so  holy  a  Prince, 
that  too  troubled  them  sore.     The  town 
was  also   greatly  troubled  for   the  men  Mansoul 
that  were    committed  to  ward,  for   that  greatly 
they  were  their  stay  and  their  guide,  and  distressed. 
for  that  they  believed,  that  if  those  men 
were  cut  off,   their  execution    would  be  but  the  be- 
ginning of  the  ruin  cf  the  town  of  Mansoul.  Where- 
fore what  de  they,   but,   together  with 
the  men  in  prison,  draw  up  a  petition  to  They  send 
the  Prince,  and  sent  it  to  Emmanuel  by  a    petition 
the  hand  of  Mr.  Wouldlive.  So  he  went  to  Etnman- 
and  came  to  the  Prince's  quarters,  and  uel    by  the 
presented  ihe  petition  :  the  sum  of  which  hand        of 
was  this.  Mr.  Wadd- 

"  Great  and  wonderful  Potentate,  live. 
victor  over  Diaholus,  and  conqueror  of 
the  town  of  Mansoul ;  we,  the  miserable  inhabitant 
of  that  most  wofui  corporation,  do  humbly  beg,  that 
we  may  find  favour  in  thy  sight,  and  remember 
not,  against  us,  former  transgressions,  nor  yet  the 
sin  of  the  chief  of  our  town,  but  spare  us  according 
to  the  greatness  of  thy  mercy;  and  let  us  not  die, 
it 


11©  1HE  HOLY  WAJt. 

but  live  in  (by  sight;  so  shall  we  be  willing  to  be 
thy  servants,  and,  if  thou  shalt  think  fit,  to  gather 
©ur  meat  under  thy  table." 

So  the  petitioner  went,  as  was  said,  with  his  peti- 
tion to  the  Prince,  and  the  Prince  took 
They  are  it  at  his  hand,  but  sent  him  away  with 
answered  silence.  This  still  afflicted  the  town  of 
with  silence.  Mansoul,  but  yet  considering  that  now 
they  must  either  petition  or  dis  for  now 
they  could  not  do  any  thing  else ;  therefore  they 
consulted  again,  and  sent  another  petition,  and  this 
petition  was  much  after  the  form  and  method  of  the 
former. 

But  when  the  petition  was  drawn  up,  by  whom 
should  they  send  it,  was  the  next  question  ;  for  they 
would  not  send  this  with  him  by  whom  they  sent  the 
£rst,  for  they  thought  that  the  Prince  had  taken  some 
™  .    offence  at  the  manner  of  his  deportment 

I  hey  pet-  before  him,  So  they  attempted  to  make 
iwn  again.  cap^a^n  Conviction  their  messenger  with 

#  nC<lh~  **>  but  he  8aid>  "  That  ke  neither  durst 
n0t  tell  by  DQr  wonld  petition  Emmanuel  for  trai- 

~  t0  tors,  nor  be  to  the  Prince  an  advocate  for 
send  it.  rebels.  Yet  withal,  said  he,  our  Prince 
is  good,  and  yeu  may  adventure  to  send  it  by  the 
hand  of  one  of  your  town,  provided  he  went  with  a 
rope  about  his  head,  and  pleaded  nothing  but  mercy." 
Well,  they  made,  through  fear,  their  delays  as 
long  as  they  could,  and  longer  than  delays  were 
jood,  but  fearing  at  last  the  dangerousness  of  them, 
Miey  thought,  but  with  many  a  fainting  in  their 
minds,  to  send  their  petition  by  Mr.  Desires-awake  ; 
ao  they  sent  for  Mr.  Desires-awake ;  now  he  dwelt 
ib  a  very  mean  cottage  in  Mansoul,  and  he  came  at 
his  neighbour's  request :  so  they  told  him  what  they 
had  done,  and  what  they  would  do  concerning  peti- 
tioning, and  that  they  did  desire  of  him  that  he  would 
go  therewith  to  the  Prince. 

Then  said  Mr.  Desires-awake,  why 
Mr.  De-  should  not  I  do  the  best  I  ean  to  save  so 
sire-awake  famous  a  town  from  destruction  ?  they 
goes     mth  therefore  delivered  the  petition  to  hit»r 


■ 

SUB  HOLY  WAR.  Ill 

and  told  him  how  he  must  address  him-  Uic  petition 
self  to  the  Prince,  and  wished  hira  ten  to  the 

thousand  good  speeds.     So  he  comes  to  Prince. 
the   Prince's   pavilion  at  the   first,  and 
asked  to  speak  with  his  majesty  :  so  word  was  car- 
ried to  Emmanuel,  and  the  Prince  came  out  to  the 
man.     When  Mr.  Desires-awake  saw  the  Prince,  he 
fell  flat  with  his  face  to  the  ground,   and   cried  out, 
"  O  that  Mansoul  might  live  before  thee  !  and  witk 
that  he   presented   the   petition.     The 
which,  when  the  Prince   had  read,   he  His  enter- 
turned  away  for  a  while  aad  wept,   but  tainment. 
refraining  himself,  he  turned-  again  to 
the  man  (who  all  this  while  lay  crying  at  hi3  feet  as 
at  the  first)  and  said  to  him,  "  Go  thy  way  to  ti»y 
place,  and  I  will  consider  of  thy  requests." 

Now  you  may  think,  that  they  of  Mansoul  that 
had  sent  him,  what  with  guilt,  and  what  with  fear, 
lest  their  petition  should  be  rejected,  could  cot  but 
look  with  many  a  long  look,  and  that  too  with  strange 
workings  of  heart,  to  see  what  would  become  of  their 
petitioa ;  at  iast  they  saw  their  messenger  coming 
back  ;  so  when  he  was  come,  they  asked  His  return 
him  how  he  fared  ?  what  Emmanuel  said  1  and  answers 
and  what  was  become  of  the  petitioa  ?  to  them 
but  he  told  them,  that  he  would  be  silent  thai  sent 
till  he  came  te  the  prison  to  my  lord  him. 
Mayor,  my  lord  W'illbewill  and  Mr.  Re- 
corder :  so  he  went  forwards  towards  the  prisoa- 
house,  where  the  men  of  Mansoul  lay  bound.  But 
oh,  what  a  multitude  flocked  after,  to  hear  what  the; 
messenger  said.  So  when  he  was  come,  nm\  had 
shewn  himself  at  the  gate  of  the  prison,  my  lord 
Mayor  himself  looked  as  white  as  a  clout,  the  Re- 
corder also  did  quake :  but  they  asked  and  said, 
Come,  good  Sir,  what  did  the  great  Prince  say  to 
you  ?  then  said  Mr.  Desires  awake,  when  I  came  to 
my  Lord's  pavilion,  I  called,  and  he  came  forth  ;  go 
I  fell  prostrate  at  his  feet,  and  delivered  to  him  my 
petition,  (for  the  greatness  of  his  person,  and  the 
glory  of  his  countenance  would  not  suffer  me  to 
stand  upon  my  legs.)    Now  as  he  received  the  pe*l* 


1 X*  .JHE  HOLY  WAR. 

tion,  I  cried,  "  O  that  Mansoul  might  live  before 
thee !"  So  when  for  a  while  he  had  looked  thereon, 
he  turned  him  about  and  said  to  his  servant,  "  Go 
thy  way  to  thy  place  again,  and  I  will  consider  of 
thy  requests."  The  messenger  added,  moreover,  and 
aaid,  "  The  Prince,  to  whom  you  sent  me,  is  such  a 
one  for  beauty  and  glory,  that  whoso  sees  him  must 
both  love  and  fear  him ;  I,  for  my  part,  can  do  no 
less  ;  but  I  know  not  what  will  be  the  end  of  these 
things."  At  this  answer  they  were  all  at 
Blans&ul  a  stand,  both  they  in  prison,  and  they  that 
confounded  followed  the  messenger  thither,  to  hear 
atthe answer  the  news,  or,  what  manner  of  interpre- 
tation to  put  upon  what  the  Prince  had 
aaid.  Now,  when  the  prison  was  cleared  of  the  throng, 
the  prisoners  among  themselves,  began 
The  priso-  to  «omment  upon  Emmanuel's  words. 
tiers  judg-  My  lord  Mayor  said,  That  the  answer 
ment  upon  did  not  look  with  a  rugged  face ;  but 
the  Prince's  Willbewill  said,  u  betokened  evil ;  and 
answer.  the  Recorder,  that  it  was  a  messenger  of 
death :  now  they  that  were  left,  and 
{hat  stood  behind,  and  so  could  not  so  well  hear 
what  the  prisoners  said,  some  cf  them  catche<l  hold 
ef  a  piece  of  a  sentence,  and  some  on  a  bit  of  ano- 
ther; some  took  hold  of  what  the  messenger  said, 
and  some  of  the  prisoners'  judgment 
Misgiving  thereon ;  so  none  had  the  right  under- 
thoughts  standing  of  things;  but  you  cannot  ima- 
breed  con-  gine  what  work  these  people  made,  and 
fusion  hi  what  confusion  there  was  in  Mansoul 
MansouL  now.  For  presently  they  that  had  heard 
what  was  gaid,  Sew  about  the  town,  one 
erying  one  thing,  and  another  the  quite  contrary, 
and  both  were  sure  enough  they  told  true,  for  they 
did  hear,  they  said,  with  their  ears  what  was  said, 
and  therefore  could  not  be  deceived.  One  would 
say,  We  must  all  be  killed;  another  would  say,  We 
must  all  be  saved ;  and  a  third  would  say,  That  the 
Prince  would  not  be  concerned  with  Mansoul,  and  a 
fourth,  That  the  prisoners  must  be  suddenly  put 
to  death.  And  as  I  said,  every  one  stood  to  it,  that  he 


1HE  H8LY  WAR.  11* 

told  his  tale  the  Tightest,  and  that  all  others  but  he 
were  out.  Wherefore  Mansoul  had  molestation  upon 
molestation,  nor  coald  any   man  know  on  what  to 
rest  the  sole  of  his  foot;  for  one  would  go  by  now, 
and  as  he  went,  if  he  heard   his   neighbour  tell  his 
tale,  to  be    sure  he  would  tell    the  quite  contrary, 
and  both  would   stand  to  it,  that  he  told  the  truth  : 
nay,  some  of  them  had  got  this  story  by 
the  end,  That  the   Prince  did  intend  to  Mansoul 
put  Mansoul  to  the  sword.     And  now  it  in     per- 
began  to  be  dark,  wherefore  poor  Man-  plexity. 
soul  was  in  sad  perplexity  ail  that  night, 
until  the  next  morning. 

But  so  far  as  I  could  gather,  by  the  best  informa- 
tion that  I  could  get,  all  this  hubbub  came  through 
the-  words  that  the  Recorder  had  said  ^yhjat  wm 
when  he  told  them,  That,  in  his  judg-  noteuutfo 
meat,  the  Prince's  answer  wa3  a  messen-  ° 
ger  of  death.  It  was  this  that  fired  the  town,  and 
that  began  the  fright  in  Mansoul ;  for  Mansoul,  in 
former  times,  did  use  to  count  that  Mr.  Recorder 
was  a  seer,  and  that  his  sentence  was  equal  to  the 
best  of  oracles ;  and  thus  was  Mansoul  a  terror  t* 
itself. 

And  now  they  began  to  feel  what  was  the  effects 
of  stubborn  rebellion,  and  unlawful  resistance  a- 
gainst  their  Prince,  I  gay,  they  now  began  to  feel 
the  effects  thereof,  by  guilt  and  fear,  that  now  had 
swallowed  them  up ;  and  who  more  involved  in  the 
one,  but  they  that  were  most  in  the  other,  to  wit, 
the  chief  of  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

To  be   brief,    when    the  fame  of  the 
fright  was  out  of  the    town,  and  the  pris-  They  re- 
oners  had  a  little  recovered  themselves,  solve  to 
they    take  to   themselves   some  heart,  petition 
and  think  to  petition  the  Prince  for  life  again. 
again.     So  they  did  draw  up  a  third  pe- 
tition, the  contents  where©£  was  this. 

"Prince   Emmanuel,  the  Great  Lord 
of  all  the  worlds,  and  master  of  mercy,  Tluw  pe- 
we  thy  poor  wretched,  miserable,  dying  titioit: 
town  of  Mansoul,  do  confess  nat«  thy 

10* 


,U4      .  XBE  HOLY  WA&, 

groat  and  glorious  Majesty,  that  we  have  sinned  a* 
gainst  thy  Father  and  thee,  and  are  no  more  wor- 
thy to  be  called  thy  Mansoul,  but  rather  to  be  cast 
into  the  pit  If  thou  wilt  slay  us,  we  have  deserved 
it.  If  thou  wilt  condemn  us  to  the  deepc  we  cannot 
but  say  thou  art  righteous.  We  cannot  complain, 
whatever  thou  deest,  or  however  thou  earnest  it  to- 
wards us.  But  oh  !  let  mercy  reign  !  and  let  it  be 
extended  to  us.  O,  let  mercy  take  hold  upon  us! 
and  free  us  from  our  transgressions,  and  we  will 
sing  of  thy  mercy  and  of  thy  judgment.     Amen." 

This  petition,  when  drawn  up,  was 
Prayer  designed  to  be  sent  to  the  Prinee,  as  the 
aitended  first :  but  who  should  carry  it,  that  was 
with  dif-  the  question.  Some  said,  Let  him  do  it 
ficulty.  that  went    with    the    first,  bat  ethers 

Old  Good-  thought  not  good  to  do  that,  and  that 
deed  pro-  because  he  sped  no  better.  Now  there 
pounded  as  was  an  ©Id  man  in  the  town,  and  his 
a  fit  person  name  was  Mr.  Good-deed.  A  man  that 
to  carry  the  bare  only  the  name,  but  had  nothing  of 
petition,  the  the  nature  of  the  thing  ;  now  some  were 
eld  Record-  for  sending  of  him,  but  the  Recorder 
er  opposes  was  by  no  means  for  that :  "  For  (said 
it,  and  he  is  he)  we  now  stand  in  need  of,  and  are 
rejected.  pleading  for  mercy ;  wherefore,  to  send 
our  petition  by  a  man  of  that  name, 
will  seem  to  cross  the  petition  itself;  should  we 
make  Mr.  Good-deed  our  messenger,  when  our  peti- 
tion cries  for  mercy. 

"  Besides,  (quoth  the  old  gentlemen)  should  the 
Prince  now,  as  he  receives  the  petition,  ask  him, 
and  say ;  what  is  thy  name  ?  as  no  body  knows  but 
he  will ;  and  he  should  say,  old  Good-deed ;  what 
think  you,  would  Emmanuel  say  but  this.  Ay,  is 
old  Good-deed  yet  alive  in  Mansoul,  then  let  old 
Good-deed  *ave  you  from  your  distresses.  And  if 
he  say  so,  I  am  sure  we  are  lost,  nor  can  a  thousand 
orold  Good-deeds  save  Mausoul." 

After  the  Recorder  had  given  in  his  reasons,  why 
©Id  Good-deed  should  not  go  with  this  petition  to 
Bmmanuel,  the  restof  the  prisoners,  and  chief  tr 


$HE  HOLY  WAB.  IIS 

Mansoul  opposed  it  also,  and  so  old  Good-deed  was 
laid  aside,  and  they  agreed  to  send  Mr.  Desires  awake 
again  ;  so  they  sent  for  him,  and  desired  him  that  he 
would,  a  second  time,  go  with  their  petition  to  the 
Prince,  and  he  readily  told  them  he  would.  But 
they  bid  him,  that  in  any  wise  he  should  take  heed, 
that  in  no  word  or  carriage  he  gave  offence  to  the 
Prince,  for  by  doing  s®,  for  ought  we  can  tell,  you 
may  bring  Mansoul  into  utter  destruction,  said  they. 

Now  Mr.  Desires-awake,  when  he  saw  that  he  must 
go  his  errand,  besought  that  they  would  grant  that 
Mr.  Wet-Eyes  might  go  with  him.    Now 
this  Wet-Eyes  was  a  near  neighbour  of  Mr.  Desires 
Mr.   Desires,  a  poor  man,  a  man  of  a  awake  goes 
broken  spirit,  yet  one  that  could  speak  again,    and 
well  to  a  petition.    So  they  granted  that  takes      one 
he  should  go  with  him.    Wherefore  they  Wet-Eyes 
address    themselves  to  their    business,  ivith  him. 
Mr.  Desires  put  a  rope  upon  his  bead, 
and   Mr.  Wet-Eyes  went  with  his  hand3  wringing 
together.     Thus  they  went  to  the  Prince's  pavilion. 

Now  when  they  went  to  petition  this  third  time, 
they  were  not  without  thoughts,  that  by  often  com- 
ing they  might  be  a  burden  to  the  Prince.  Where- 
fore when  they  were  come  to  the  door  of  his  pavil- 
ion, they  first  made  their  apology  for  themselves, 
and  for  their  centring  to  trouble  Emmanuel  so  often ; 
and  they  said,  "  That  they  came  not  hither  to  day  : 
for  that  they  delighted  in  being  trouble- 
some, or,  for  that  they  delighted  to  hear  Their  apcl- 
themselves  talk ;  but  for  that  necessity  cgy  for 
caused  tfeem  to  come  to  his  Majesty :  their  com- 
they  could,  they  said,  have  no  rest  day  ing  again. 
nor  night,  because  of  their  transgressions 
against  Shaddai,  aud  against  Emmanuel  his  son. 
They  also  thought  that  some  misbehaviour  of  Mr. 
Desires-awake,  the  last  time,  might  give  distaste  to 
his  Highness ;  and  so  cause  that,  he  returned  from 
to  merciful  a  Prince  empty  and  without  counte* 
nance."  So  wheia  they  had  made  this  apology,  Mr. 
Desires-awake  east  himself  prostrate  upon  the  ground* 
as  at  the  first,  at  the  feet  of  the  mighty  Prince,  say- 


nllfr  $HE  HOLY  WAIL. 

ing,  "  O  that  Mansoul  might  live  before  thee  !"  And 
so  he  delivered  bis  petition.  The  Prince  then  hav- 
ing read  the  petition,  turned  aside  a  while  as  before, 
and  coming  again  to  the  place  where  the  petitioner 

lay  on  the  ground,  he  demanded  what 
The  Prince  his  name  was,  and  of  what  esteem  in  the 
talkcih  account  of  Mansoul  ?  For  that  he,  above 

with  them,    all  the  multitude  in  Mansoul,  should  be 

sent  to  him  upon  such  an  errand.  Then 
•aid  the  man  to  the  Prince,  "  O  let  not  my  lord  be 
angry ;  and  why  enquirest  thou  after  the  name  of 
such  a  dead  dog  as  I  am  !  Pass  by,  1  pray  tViee,  and 
take  no  notice  of  whom  I  am,  because  there  is,  as 

thou  very  well  knowest,  so  great  a  dis- 
Mr.  De-  proportion  between  me  and  thee.  Why 
sires'  free  the  townsmen  chuse  to  send  me  on  this 
speech  to  errand  to  my  Lord,  is  best  known  to 
his  Prince,  themselves,  but  it  could  not  be,  for  that 

they  thought  that  1  had  favour  with  my 
Lord.  For  my  part  I  am  out  of  charity  with  my- 
self, who  then  should  be  in  love  with  me  1  Yet  live 
I  would,  and  so  would  I  that  ray  townsmen  should ; 
and  because  both  they  and  myself  are  guilty  of  great 
transgressions;  therefore  they  have  sent  me,  and  I 
am  come  in  their  names  to  beg  of  my  Lord  for  mer- 
cy. Let  it  please  thee,  therefore,  to  incline  to  mer- 
cy, but  ask  not  what  thy  servants  are." 

Then  said  the  Prince,  "  And  what  is  he  that  is 
become  thy  companion  in  this  so  weighty  a  matter  V J 
go  Mr.  Desires  told  Emmanuel,  that  he  was  a  poor 
neighbour  of  his,  and  one  of  his  most  intimate  asso- 
eiates;  and  his  name,  said  he,  may  it  please  your 
most  excellent  Majesty,  is  Wet-Eyes,  of  the  town  of 
Mansoul.  1  know  that  there  are  many  of  that  name 
that  are  naught,  but  I  hope  it  will  be  no  offence  to 
my  Lord  that  I  have  brought  my  poor  neighbour 
Tvith  me." 

Then  Mr.  Wet-Eyes  fell  on  his  face  to  the  ground, 
and   made   this   apology   for   his  coming  with  his 

neighbour  to  his  Lord. 
Mr.     Wet       "  O  my  Lord,  quoth  he,  what  am  I,  I 
JBj/es  apolo-  know  net  myself,  nor  whether  m&  naare 


SHE  HOLY  WAR.  H? 

be  feigned  or  true,  especially  when  I  be-  gy  for  his 
gin  to  think  what  some  have  said,  name-  coming 
ly,  that  this  name  was  given  me,  be-  with     his 
cause  Mr.  Repentance  was   my  father,  neighbour* 
Good  men  have  bad  children,  and  the 
upright  and  sincere  do  oftentimes  beget  hypocrites. 
My  mother  also  called  me  this  name  from  my  cra- 
dle, but  whether  because  from  the  moistness  of  my 
brain,  or  because  of  the  softness  of  my  heart.     I  see 
dirt  in  my  own  tears,  and  filtbiness  in  the  bottom  of 
my  prayers.     But  I  pray  thee,  (all   this  while  the 
gentleman  wept)  that  thou  wouldst  not  remember 
against  us  our  transgressions,  nor  take  offence  at  the 
unqualifiedness  of  thy  servants,  but  mercifully  pas* 
by  the  sin  of  Mansoul,  and  refrain  from  glorifying  of 
thy  grace  no  longer." 

So  at  his  bidding  they  arose,  and  both  stood 
trembling  before  him,  and  he  spake  to  them  to  this 
purpose. 

"The  town  of  Mansoul  hath  griev- 
ously rebelled  against  w\y  Father,  in  that  The  prince's 
they  have  rejected  him  from  being  their  answer. 
King,   and  did  chuse   to  themselves  for 
their  captain,  a  liar,  a  murderer,  and  a  runagate  slave. 
For  this  Biabolus,  and  your  pretended  prince,  though 
once  so  highly  accounted  for  by  you,  made  rebellion 
fcgainst  my  Father  and  me,  even  in  our  palace  and 
highest  court  there,  thinking  to  become  a  prince 
and  King.     But  being  there  timely  dis- 
covered and  apprehended,  and  for  his  The   origi- 
wickedness  bound  in  chains,  and  separa-  nal  cf  Din- 
ted to  the  pit,  with   those  that  were  his  bolus, 
companions  ;  he  offered  himself  to  you, 
and  you  have  received  him. 

"  Now  this  is,  and  for  a  long  time  hath  been,  an 
high  aifrant  to  my  Father;  wherefore  my  Father 
sent  to  you  a  powerful  army,  to  reduce  you  to  your 
obedience.  But  you  know  how  those  men,  their 
captains  and  their  councils  were  esteemed  of  you, 
and  what  they  received  at  your  hand.  You  rebelled 
against  them,  you  shut  your  gates  upon  them,  you 
bid  them  battle,  you  fought  them,  and  fought  f<Kj 


US  THE  HOLY  WAK. 

Diabolus  against  them.  So  they  sent  to  ray  Father 
for  more  power,  and  I,  with  my  -men,  are  come  to 
subdue  you.  But  as  ye  treated  the  servants,  so  you 
treated  their  Lord :  you  stood  up  in  hostile  manner 
against  me,  you  shut  up  your  gates  against  me,  yoa 
turned  tke  deaf  ear  to  me,  and  resisted  as  long  as  ye 
could  ;  but  now  I  have  made  a  conquest  ef  yeu.  Did 
you  cry  to  me  for  mercy,  so  long  as  you  had  hopes 
that  you  might  prevail  against  me  ?  But  now  I  have 
taken  the  town,  you  cry  ;  but  why  did  you  not  cry 
before,  when  the  white  flag  of  my  mercy,  and  the 
red  flag  of  justice,  and  the  black  flag  that  threatened 
execution,  were  set  up  to  cite  you  to  it  ?  Now  I 
have  conquered  your  Diabolus,  you  come  t©  me  for 
favour;  but  why  did  you  not  help  me  against  the 
inigkty  ?  Yet  I  will  consider  your  petition,  and  will 
answer  it  so,  as  *ill  be  for  my  glory. 

"Go  bid  eaptain  Boanerges,  and  oaptaia  Con- 
vietion,  bring  ihe  prisoners  out  to  me,  into  the  camp 
tomorrow;  and  say  you  to  captain  Judgment,  and 
captain  Execution,  Stay  you  in  the  castle,  and  take 
good  heed  to  yourselves,  that  you  keep  all  quiet  ia 
Mansoul,  until  you  shall  hear  further  from  me :"  and 
with  that  he  turned  himself  from  them  and  went  in- 
to his  royal  pavilioa  again. 

So  the  petitioners  having  received  this  answer 
from  the  Prince,  returned  as  at  the  first,  to  go  to 
their  companions  ?gam.  But  they  had  not  gone  far 
but  thoughts  began  to  work  in  their  minds,  that  no 
mercy,  as  yet,  was  intended  by  the  Prince  to  Man- 
soul  :  so  they  went  to  the  place  where  the  prisoners 
lay  bound  ;  but  the  workings  about  the  mind  of  what 
Tvould  become  of  Mansoul,  had  such  strong  power 
over  them,  that,  by  that  they  were  come  imto  ri^m 
that  sent  them,  they  were  scarce  able  to  deliver 
their  message. 

But  they  came  at  length  to  the  gates  of  ihe  town 
(now  the  townsmen,  with  earnestness,  were  waiting 
for  their  return)  where  many  met  them  to  kaow 
what  answer  was  made  to  the  petition.  They  the* 
«ried  out  to  those  that  were  sent,  What  news  from 
*fce  Prince,  and  what  hath  Emmanuel  said ;  tfcej 


TOE  HOLY  WAR.  11  g 

said,  They  must  (as  before)  go  up  to  the  prison,  and 
there  deliver  their  message.     So  away 
they  went  to  the  prison,  with  a  §  rnulti-  §  Ofinquis* 
tude  at  their  heels.     Now  when  they  itive 
were  come  to  the  gates  of  the  prison,  thoughts. 
they  told  the  first  part  of  Emmanuel's 
speech  to  the  prisoners,  to  wit,  How  he  reflected 
upon  their  disloyalty  to  his  Father  and  himself,  and 
how  they  had  chose  and  closed  with  Diabolus ;  had 
fought  for  him,  hearkened  to  him,   *nd   been  ruled 
by   him,   but  had  despised  him  and  his 
men.      This   made   the    prisoners   look  The     mcs~ 
pale;  bat  the  messengers  proceeded,  and  sengers    in 
said,  He,  the  Prince,  said  moreover,  that  telling  their 
he   would   consider   your   petition,  and  tale  fright 
give  stich  answer  thereto,  as  would  stand  the  prism- 
with  his  glory.   And  as  these  words  were  ers. 
speken,  Mr.  Wet-Eyes  gave  a  great  sigh. 
At  this  they   were   all   of  them   struck  into  their 
dumps,  and  could  not  tell  what  to  say  ;  fear  also  pos- 
sest  them  in  marvellous  Manner,  and  death  seemed 
to  sit  upon   some  of  their  eye-brows.     Now  there 
was  in  the  company  a  netable  sharp   witted  fellow, 
a  mean  man  of  estate,  and  his  name  was 
Old  Inquisitive:  this  man  asked  the  peti-  Oldlnquis* 
doners,  if  they  had  told  out  every  whit  itive. 
of  what  Emmanuel  had  said.     And  they 
answered,   Verily  no.       Then  said  Inquisitive,   I 
thought  so  indeed.     Pray  what  was  it  more  that  he 
said  gnto  you?     Then  they  paused  a  while,  but  at 
last  they  brought  out  all,  saying,  the  Prince  did  bid 
us  send  captain  Boanerges  and  captaia  Conviction 
to  bring  the  prisoners  down  to  him  tomorrow,  and 
that  captain  Judgment  and  captain  Execution  should 
take  charge  of  the  castle  and  town,  till  they  should 
hear  further  from  him.     They  said  also,  That  when 
the  Prince  had  commanded  them  thus  to  do,  he  im- 
mediately turned  his  back  upon  them,  and  went  ta 
his  royal  pavilion. 

But  0,  how  this  return  !  and  especially  the  lafet 
clause  of  it,  that  the  prisoners  must  go  out  to  the 
Prince  into  the  camp,  brake  all  their  loins  in  pie- 


120  'EHE  HOLY  WAR. 

ccs.     Wherefore  with  one  voice,  they  set  up  a  ery- 

that  reached  up  to  the  heavens  :  this  done5-each  of 

j.  r        ..  the  three  prepared  himself  to  die,  (and 

$  conscience.    tfce  g  Recorder  gaid  unto  theni)  This 

was  the  thing  that  I  feared)  for  they  concluded,  that 
tomorrow,  by  that  the  sun  went  down,  they-  should 
all  be  tumbled  out  of  the  world.  The  whole  town 
also  counted  of  no  other,  but  that  in  their  time  and 
order  they  must  all  drink  of  the  same  cup.  Where- 
fore the  town  of  Mansoul  spent  that  night  in  mourn- 
ing, and  sackcloth,  and  ashes.  The  prisoners  also, 
when  the  time  was  some  for  them  to  go  down  before 
the  Priuce,  dressed  themselves  in  mourning  attire, 
with  ropes  upon  their  heads.  The  whole  town  of 
Mansoul  also  shewed  themselves  upon  the  wall,  all 
©lad  in  mourning  weeds,  if  perhaps  the  Prince,  with 
sight  thereof,  might  be  moved  with  com- 
f  Vain  passion.  But  oh !  how  the  busy  bodies 
thoughts,  that  were  in  the  town  of  Mansoul,  did 
now  concern  themselves;  they  did  run 
here  and  there  through  the  streets  of  the  tewn  by 
companies ;  crying  out  as  they  ran  in  tumultuous 
ways,  ong  after  one  manner,  and  another  the  quit* 
contrary,  to  the  almost  utter  distraction  of  Mansoul. 
Well  the  time  is  come  that  the  prisoners  must  go 
down  to  the  camp,  and  appear  before  the  Priace  : 
and  thus  was  the  manner  of  their  going  down  :  Cap- 
tain Boanerges  went  with  a  guard  before  them,  and 
•aptain  Conviction  came  behind,  and  the  prisoners 
went  down  bound  in  chains  in  the  midst : 
The  prison,  so  I  say,  the  prisoners  went  in  the  midst, 
ers  had  to  and  the  guard  went  with  flying  colours 
go  to  trial,  behind  and  before,  but  the  prisoners 
went  with  drooping  spirits.  Or,  more 
particularly  thus: 
How  they  The  prisoners  went  down  all  in 
went.  mourning,  they   put  ropes  upon  them- 

selves; they  went  on  smitia^  of  (hem- 
Selves  on  the  breast,  but  durst  not  lift  up  then  eye* 
to  heaven.  Thus  they  went  out  of  the  wn  of  Man- 
soul, till  they  came  into  the  midst  oi  *ie  Prince's 
army;  the  sight  and  glory   of  whicU  did  greatly 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  121 

heighten  their  affliction.  Nor  could  they  now  long- 
er forbear,  but  cry  out  aloud,  "  O  unhappy  men  !  O 
wretched  men  of  Mansou! !"  Their  chains  still  mix- 
ing their  dolorous  notes,  with  the  cries  of  the  pris- 
oners, made  the  noise  more  lamentable. 

So  when  they  were  come  to  the  door  They    fall 
©f  the  Prince's  pavilion,  they  ca3t  them-  damn  pros- 
selves  prostrate  upon  the  place ;   then  tr&e  before 
one  went  in  and  told  his  Lord  that  the  Mm 
prisoners  were  come  down.  The  Prince 
then  ascended  a  throne  of  state,  and  sent  for  the  pris- 
oners in;  who  when  they  came  did   tremble  before 
him,  also  they  covered  their  faces  with  shame.     Now 
as  they  drew  near  to  the   place  where  he  sat,  they 
threw  themselves  down   before  him;  then  said  the 
Prince  to  the  captain  Boanerges,  bid  the  prisoners 
stand  upon  their  feet:  then  they  stood  trembling  be- 
fore him,  and  he  said,   Are   you  the  men  that  here- 
tofore were  the  servants   of  Shaddai  ? 
And  they  said,  Yes,  Lord,  yes.     Then  They     are 
said  the  Prince  again,  Are  you  the  men  upon    their 
that  did  suffer  yourselves  to  be  corrupt-  trial. 
ed  and  defiled  by  that  abominable  one 
Diabolus  ?  And  they  said,  We  did  more  than  sutfav 
it,  Lord;  for  we  chose  it  out  of  our  own  mind.    The 
Prince  asked  further,  saying,  Could  you  have  been 
content  that  your  slavery  sh&uld  have  continued  un- 
der his  tyranny  as  long  as  you  had  lived  ?     Then 
said  the   prisoners,   Yes,  Lord,  yes;  for  his  ways 
were  pleasing  to  our  flesh  and  we  were  grown  aliens 
to  a  better  state.     And  did  you,  said  he,  when  I 
came   up   against   this   town    of    Mansoul  heartily 
wish,  that  I  might  not   have  the  victory  over  you  ? 
Yes,  Lord,  yes;  said  they.     Then  said  the  Prince^ 
And  what  punishment  is  it,  think  you,  that  you 
deserve  at  my  hand,  for  these  and  other  your  high 
and  mighty  sins  ?     And  they  said,  Both  death  and 
the  deep,  Lord ;  for  we  have  deserved  no  less.     He 
asked  again  if  they  had  ought  to  say  for 
themselves,  why  the  sentence  that  they  They    ccn~ 
confessed  that  they  had  deserved  should  demn  ihrm- 
not  be  passed  upon  them  ?  And  they  said,  selres, 

n 


122  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Wc  can  say  nothing,  Lord ;  thou  art  just,  for  we 
have  sinned.  Then  said  the  Prince,  and  for  what 
are  these  ropes  upon  your  heads  ?  The  prisoners 
answered,  These  ropes  §  are  to  bind  us 
I  Sins.  withal   to  the  place  of  execution,  if  mer- 

jPrs.  5.  22.  cy  be  not  pleasing  in  thy  sight.     So  he, 

further  asked,  if  all  the  men  in  the 
*  Powers  of  town  of  Mansoul  were  in  this  confes- 
ihe   soul.  sion,  as  they  ?  And  they  answered, 

|  Corruptions   All  the  ^natives,  Lord  ;  but  for  the  f 
and  lusts.         Diabolonians  that  came  into  our  town 

when  the  tyrant  got  possession  of  us, 
we  can  say  nothing  for  them. 

Then  the  Prince  commanded  that  an 
A  victory  herald  should  be  called;  and  that  he 
proclaimed,  should,  in  the  midst  and  throughout 
the  camp  of  Emmanuel,  proclaim,  and 
that  with  sound  of  trumpet,  that  the  Prince,  the 
son  of  Shaddai  had  in  his  Father's  name,  and  for  his 
Father's  glory,  gotten  a  perfect  conquest  and  vic- 
tory over  Mansoul,  and  that  the  prisoners  should 
follow  him  and  say,  Amen.  So  this  was  done  as  he 
had  commanded.  And  presently  the 
\Joy  for  \  music  that  was  in  the  upper  region 
itie  victory,  sounded  melodiously.  The  captains 
that  were  in  the  camp  shouted  ;  and  the 
soldiers  did  sing  songs  of  triumph  to  the  Prince. 
The  colours  waved  in  the  wind,  and  great  joy  was 
every  where,  only  it  was  wanting,  as  yet,  in  the 
hearts  of  the  men  of  Mansoul. 

Then  the  Prince  called  for  the  prisoners  to  come 
•  and  to  stand  again  before  him,  and  they 

They  arc  came  and  stood  trembling,  and  he  said 
pardoned,  unto  them,  "  The  sins,  trespasses  and 
and  are  iniquities,  that  you  with  the  whole  town 
eommanded  of  Mansoul,  have  from  time  to  time 
to  proclaim  committed  against  my  Father  and  me,  I 
it  to-mor-  have  power  and  commandment,  from 
row  in  my  Father,  to  forgive  the  town  of  Man- 
Jfg?  smtll  sohI,  and  do  forgive  you  accordingly .* 
And  having  so  said,  he  gave  them  written  in  parch- 
MeKnt,  and  sealed  witii  seven  seals,  a  Jarge  and  general 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  .  \2& 

pardon,  commanding  both  my  lord  Mayor,  my  lord 
Wiilbewill,  and  Mr.  Recorder,  to  proclaim,  and  to 
cause  it  to  be  proclaimed,  to-morrow  by  that  the 
sun  is  up,  throughout  the  whole  town  of  Mansoul. 

Moreover,  the  Prince  stript  the  priso- 
ners of  their  mourning  weeds,  and  gave  Their  rags 
them  beauty  for  ashes,  the  oil  of  joy  for  are     taken 
mourning,  and  the  garment  of  praise,  from  ihcm. 
fbr  the  spirit  of  heaviness.  Isa.  61.  3, 

Then  he  gave  to  each  of  the  three, 
jewels  of  gold,  and  precious  stones,  and  A  strange 
took  away  (heir  ropes,  and  put  chains  of  alteration* 
gold  about  their  necks,  and  ear-rings  in 
their  ears.  Now  the  prisoners  when  they  did  hear 
the  gracious  words  of  Prince  Emmanuel,  and  had 
beheld  all  that  was  done  unto  them,  fainted  almost 
quite  away;  for  the  grace,  the  benefit,  the  pardon, 
was  sudden,  glorious,  and  so  big,  that  they  were 
not  able,  without  staggering,  to  stand  up  under  it. 
Yea,  my  lord  Wiilbewill  swooned  out-right;  but 
the  Prince  stept  to  him,  put  his  everlasting  arms 
under  him,  embraced  him,  kissed  him,  and  bid  him 
be  of  good  cheer,  for  all  should  be  performed  accor- 
ding to  his  word.  He  also  did  kiss  and  embrace  and 
smile  upon  the  other  two  that  were  WillbewilPa 
sompanions,  saying,  take  these  as  further  tokens  of 
my  love,  favour  and  compassion  to  you  :  and  I  charge 
you,  that  you,  Mr.  Recorder,  tell  in  the  town  of 
Mansoul,  what  you  have  heard  and  seen. 

Then  were   their  fetters  broken  to     ,™    -  .;. 

pieces  before  their  faces,  and  cast  into  elT  %Ut 

the  air,  and  their  steps  were  enlarged  under  them. 
*Then  they  fell  down  at  the  feet  of  the  Prince,  and 
kissed  his  feet,  and  wetted  them  with  tears,  also 
they  cried  out  with  a  mighty  strong  voice,  saying, 
"  Blessed  be  the  glory  of  the  Lord  from  this  place." 
So  they  were  bid  rise  up,  and  go  to  the 
town,  and  tell  to  Mansoul  what  the  They  arc 
Prince  had  done.  He  commanded  also,  sent  heme 
that  one,  with  pipe  and  tabor,  should  go  with  pipe 
and  play  before  them  all  the  way  into  and  labor, 
the  tftwu  e£  Mausoat.     Then  was  fulfil- 


124  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

ied    vyhat  they   never   looked    for,  and  they  were 
made  to  possess  that  which  they  never  dreamed  of. 

The  Prince  also  called  for  the  noble 
Captain  captain  Credence,  and  commanded,  That 
Credence  he  and  some  of  his  officers  should  march 
guards  them  before ;tfafe  noblemen  of  Mansoul,  with 
Aom£.  flying  colours  into  the  town.     He  give 

also  in  to  captain  Credence  a  charge 
When  faith  That  about  that  time  that  the  Recorder 
and  pardon  did  read  the  general  pardon  in  the  town 
meet-  toge-  of  Mansoul,  that  at  that  very  time  he 
ther  Jitdg-  should,  with  flying  colours,  march  in  at 
merit  and  Eye-gate,  with  his  ten  thousands  at  his 
Execution  feet,  and  that  he  should  so  go,  until  he 
depart  came  by  the  high  street  of  the  town  up 

from  the       to   the  castle  gates,   and   that  himself 
heart.  should   take  possession  thereof,  against 

his  Lord  came  thither.  He  commanded 
moreover,  That  he  should  bid  captain  Jndgment, 
and  captain  Execution,  to  leave  the  strong  hold  to 
him.  and  to  withdraw  from  Mansoul,  and  to  return 
into  the  camp  with  speed  unto  the  Prince. 

And  now7  was  the  town  of  Mansoul  also  delivered 
from  the  lerrour  of  the  first  four  captains  and  their 
men. 

Well,  I  told  you  before,  how  the  prisoners  were 
entertained  by  the  noble  Prince  Emmanuel,  and  how 
ihey  behaved  themselves  before  him,  and  how  he 
sent  them  away  to  their  homes  with  pipe  and  tabor 
going  before  them.  And  now  you  must  think,  that 
those  of  the  town  who  had  all  this  while  waited  to 
hear  of  their  death,  could  not  but  be  exercised  with 
sadness  of  mind,  and  with  thoughts  that  pricked 
like  thorns.  Nor  could  their  thoughts  be  kept  to 
any  one  point ;  the  wind  blew  with  them  all  this 
while  at  great  uncertainties,  yet  their  hearts  were 
like  a  balance  that  had  been  disquieted  with  shak- 
ing hand.  But  at  last  as  they,  with  many  a  long 
look,  looked  over  the  wall  of  Mansoul,  they  thought 
that  th«y  saw  some  returning  to  the  town  ;  and 
thought  again,  who  should  they  be  ?  At  last  they 
«Kscerned    that    they    were    the    prisoners.       Bat 


THE  HOLY  WAK.  \2s 

ean  you  imagine,   how  their  hearts  were  surprised 
with  wonder  !  Especially  when  they  perceived  also 
in  what  equipage,  and  with  what  honour  they  were 
sent  home.  They  went  down  to  the  camp  in  black  but 
they  came  back  to  the  town  in  white ; 
they  went  down  to  the  camp  in  ropes,  A    strange 
they  came  back  in  chains  of  gold  ;  they  alteration. 
went  down  to  the  camp  with  their  feet 
in  fetters,  but  they  came  back  with  their  steps  en- 
larged  under  them ;    they  went  also  to  the  camp 
looking  for  death,  but  they  came  back  from  thence 
with    assurance  of  life ;    they   went   down    to   the 
camp  with  heavy  hearts,  but  came  back  again  with 
pipe  and  tabor  playing  before  them.     So,  as  soon  as 
they  were  come  to  Eye-gate,  the  poor  and  tottering 
town  of  Mansoul   advanced  to  give  a  shout :  and 
they  gave  such  a  shout  as  made  the  captains  in  the 
Prince's  army  leap  at  the  sound  thereof.     Alas!  for 
them  poor  hearts,  who  could   blame  them,    since 
their  dead  friends  were  come  to  life  again  !     For  it 
was  to  them  as  life  from  the  dead,  to  see  the   anci- 
ents of  the  town  of  Mansoul  to  shine  in  such   splen- 
dour.    They  looked  for  nothing  but  the  axe  and  the 
block ;  but  behold  !  joy  and  gladness,  comfort  and 
consolation,   and   such   melodious    notes    attending 
them,  that  was  sufficient  to  make  a  sick 
man  well.     So  when  they  came  up  they  ha.  33.  24. 
saluted  each  other  with  Welcome,  wel- 
come, and  blessed  be  he  that  spared  you.     They  ad- 
ded also,  we  see  it  is  well  with  you,  but  how  must 
it  go  with    the   town  of  Mansoul,  said 
they  ?     Then    answered  them  the  Re-  Conscience. 
corder,  and   my   lord   Mayor,    Oh !  tid-  The     tun- 
ings !  glad  tidings  !  good  tidings  of  good  ;  derstandr 
and  of  great  joy  to  poor  Mansoul  !  Then  ing. 
they  gave  another  shout,  that  made  the 
earth    to  ring  again.     After  this  they  enquired  yet 
Biore  particularly,  how  things  went  in  th*  camp,  and 
what;  message  they  had  from  Emmanuel  to  the  town. 
So  they  told  them  all  passages   that    had  happened 
to  them   at   the   camp,    and  every    thing  that  the 
Prince  did  to  them.     This  made 'Mansoul  wead£r 
11  * 


126  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

at  the  wisdom  and  grace  of  the  Prince  Emmanuel ; 
then  they  told  them  what  they  had  received  at  hit 
bands,  for  the  whole  town  of  Mansoul;  and  the 
Recorder  delivered  it  in  these  words, 
O  ihe  joy  PARDON,  PARDON,  PARDON,  for 
iff  pardon  Mansoul !  and  this  shall  Mansoul  know 
tf  sin.  to-morrow.     Then  he  commanded  and 

they  went  and  summoned  Mansoul  to 
meet  together  in  the  market  place  to-morrow,  there 
to  hear  their  general  pardon  read. 

But  who  can  think  what  a  turn,  what  a  change, 
what  an  alteration  this  hint  of  things  did  make  in 
ihe  countenance  of  the  town  of  Mansoul ;  no  man 
of  Mansoul  could  sleep  that  night  for  joy  ;  in  every 
house  there  was  joy  and  music,  singing  and  making 
merry,  telling  and  hearing  of  Mansoul's  happiness 
was  then  all  that  Mansoul  had  to  do ;  and  this  was 
ihe  burden  of  all  their  song,  "  Oh  t  more  of  this  at 
the  rising  of  the  sun  t  more  of  this  to-morrow  !  Who 
thought  yesterday,  would  one  say,  that  this  day 
would  have  been  such  a  day  to  us  ?  And 
Town  talk  who  thought,  that  saw  our  prisoners  go 
ef  the  down  in  irons,  that  they  would  have  re- 

King9s  turned  in  chains  of  gold  !  yea,  they  that 

mercy.  judged  themselves  as  they  went  to  be 
judged  of  their  judge,  were,  by  hi* 
inouth,  acquitted,  not  for  that  they  were  innocent, 
but  of  the  Prince's  mercy,  and  sent  home  with  pipe 
and  tabor." 

But  is  this  the  common  custom  of  princes,  do  they 
use  to  show  such  kinds  of  favours  to  traitors  ?  No  I 
this  is  only  peculiar  to  Shaddai,  and  unto  Emmanuel 
his  son. 

Now  morning  drew  on  apace,  wherefore  the 
lord  Mayor,  the  lord  Willbewill,  and  Mr.  Record- 
er, came  down  to  the  market-place  at  the  time  that 
the  Prince  had  appointed,  where  the  townsfolk 
•were  waiting  for  them ;  and  when  they  came  they 
tame  in  that  attire,  and  in  that  glory,  that  the 
Prince  had  put  them  into  the  night  before,  and  the 
atreet  was  lightened  with  their  glory :  so  the  Mayor, 
Recorder,  and  my  lord  Willbewill  drew  dewn  te 


THE  HOLY  VfAH*  127? 

Mouth-gate,  which  was  at  the  lower  end  of  the  mar- 
ket-place, because  that,  of  okl  time,  was  the  place 
where  they  used  to  read  public  matters.  Thither 
therefore  they  came  in  their  robes,  and  their  tabor 
went  before  them.  Now  the  eagerness  of  the  people, 
to  know  the  full  of  the  matter,  was  great.  - 

Then  the  Recorder  stood  up  upon  his  The    man* 
feet,  and  first  beckoning  with  his  hand  ner  of  rea- 
for  a  silence,  he  read   out,  with  a   loud  ding      the 
voice,  the  pardon,  but  when   he  came  to  pardon. 
these  words,  "  The  Lord,  the  Lord  God,  Exod,  34. 
merciful    and   gracious,    pardoning  ini-  Mark.  3. 
quity,   transgressions  and  sins;"  and  to 
them,  "  All  manner  of  sin  and  blasphemy  shall  be 
forgiven,  &c."  they  could  not  forbear,  but  leap  for 
joy.     For  this  you  must  know,   that  there  was  con- 
joined herewith  every  man's  name  in  Mansoul ;  also 
the  seals  of  the  pardon  made  a  brave  shew. 

When  the  Recorder   had  made  an  end  of  reading 
the  pardon,  the  townsmen  ran  upon  the 
walls  of  the  town,  and  leaped  and  skip-  Now    they 
ped  thereon    for  joy,  and  bowed  them-  tread  upon 
selves  seven    times  with  their  faces  to-  the  flesh. 
wards  Emmanuel's   pavilion,  and  shout- 
ed out  aloud  for  joy,  and  said,  Let  Emmanuel  live 
for  ever. 

Then  orders  were  given  to  the  young  Lively  and 
men  in  Mansoul,  that  they  should  ring  warm 
the  bells  for  joy.     So  the  bells  did  ring  thoughts. 
and  the  people  sing,  and  the  musia  go  in 
every  house  in  Mansoul. 

When  the  Prince  had  sent  home  the 
three  prisoners   of  Mansoul  with  joy,  The   carri- 
and  pipe  and  tabor;  he  commanded  his  age   of  the 
captains,  with  all  the  field  officers  and  camp. 
soldiers  throughout    his    army,    to    be 
ready  in  that  morning,   that   the   Recorder  should 
read  the   pardon  in  Mansoul,  to  do  his  further  plea- 
sure.    So  in  the    morning,  as  I  have  shewed,  being 
come,  just  as   the   Recorder  had   made  an  end  of 
reading  the    pardon,  Emmanuel  commanded,   that 
all  the  trumpet*  in  the  ©amp  should  sound,  that  the 


128  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Faith  will  colours  should  be  displayed,  half  of 
notbesilcnt  them  upon  mount  Gracious,  and  half  of 
when  Man-  them  upon  mount  Justice.  He  corn- 
sow/^  at'erf.  manded  also,  that  al!  the  captains  should 
shew  themselves  in  their  harness,  and 
that  all  the  soldiers  should  shout  for  joy.  ft  or  wa» 
captain  Credence,  though  in  the  castle,  silent  in  such 
a  day,  but  he  from  the  top  of  the  hold  shewed  him- 
self with  sound  of  trumpet  to  JYIaiisoul,  and  lo  the 
Prince's  camp. 

Thus  have  I  shewed  you  the  manner  and  way  that 
Emmanuel  took  to  recover  the  town  of  Mans  out, 
from  under  the  hand  and  power  of  the  tyrant  Dia- 
bolus. 

The  Prince  Now  when  the  Prince  had  completed 
displays  these  outward  ceremonies  of  his  joy.  he 
his  graces  again  commanded,  that  his  captains  and 
before  soldiers,  should  shew  unto  Mansoul  some 

Mansoul.  feats  of  war.  So  they  presently  addres- 
sed themselves  to  this  work.  But  oh  ! 
with  what  agility,  nimbleness,  dexterity  and  brave- 
ry did  these  military  men  discover  their  skill  in 
feats  of  war.  to  The  now  gazing  town  of  Mansoul. 

They  marched,  they  counter-marched, 
They  are  they  opened  to  the  right  and  left,  they 
ravished  at  divided  and  subdivided,  they  closed  they, 
the  sight  wheeled,  made  good  their  front  and  rear 
ofthem.  with  their  right  and  left  wings,  and 
twenty  things  more,  with  that  aptness, 
and  then  were  ail  as  they  were  again;  that  they 
took,  yea,  ravished  the  hearts  that  were  in  Mansoul 
to  behold  it.  But  add  to  this,  the  handling  of  their 
arms,  the  managing  of  iheir  weapons  of  war,  were 
marvellous  takings  to  Mansoul  and  me. 

When  this  action  was  over,  the  whole  town  of 
Mansoul  came  out  as  one  man  to  the  Prince  in  the 
camp,  to  thank  him  and  to  praise  him, 
They  beg  for  his  abundant  favour,  and  lo  beg  that 
that  tlte  it  would  please  his  grace  to  come  unto 
Prince  and  Mansoul  with  his  men,  and  there  to  take 
his  men  up  their  quarters  for  ever.  And  this  they 
will     dwell  did  in  a  most   humble  manner,  bowing 


THE  HOLY  WAIL  129 

themselves   seven   times  to  the  ground  with  Hum 
before  him.  Then  said  he,  All  peace  be  for  ever. 
to  you :    So  the  town   came  nigh  aud 
touched  with  the  hand   the  top  of  his  golden  scep- 
tre, and  they  said,  "  Oh  !  that  the  Prince  Emman- 
uel, with  his  captains  and  men  of  war  would  dwell 
in  Mansoul   for  ever  :  and  that  his  battering    rams 
aud  slings  might  he  lodged  in  her  for   the   use  and 
serviee  of  the  Prince,  and  for  the  help  and  strength 
of  Mansoul,  for  (said  they)  we  have  room  for  thee, 
we  have  room  for  thy  men,  we  have  also  room  for 
thy    weapons  of  war,  anal  a  place  to  make  a  maga- 
zine for  thy  carriages.     Do  it,  Emman- 
uel, and  thou  shalt  be  King  and  Captain  Say    and 
in  Mansoul  for  ever.     Yea,  govern  thou  hold  to  it 
also    according   to  all   the  desires  of  thy  Mansoul. 
soul,  and  make  thou  governors  and  prin- 
ces under  thee  of  thy  captains  and  men  of  war,  and 
we  will  become  thy  servants,  and  thy  laws  shall  be 
our  direction. 

They  added  moreover,  and  prayed  his  majesty  to 
consider  thereof,  for,  said  they,  "  If  now,  after  all 
this  grace  bestowed  upon  us,  thy  miserable  town  of 
Mansoul,  thou  shouldest  withdraw  thou  and  thy 
captains  from  us,  Lhe  town  of  Mansoul  will  die.  Yea, 
(said  they)  our  blessed  Emmanuel,  if  thou  shouldest 
depart  from  us  now,  when  thou  hast  done  so  much 
good  for  us,  and  shewed  so  much  mercy  unto  us, 
what  will  follow,  but  that  our  joy  will  be  as  if  it 
had  not  been  ;  and  eur  enemies  will,  a  second  time, 
come  upon  us  with  more  rage  than  at  the  first: 
wherefore,  we  beseech  thee,  O  thou  the  desire 
of  our  eyes  and  strength,  and  the  life  ©f  our  poor 
town,  accept  of  this  motion  that  now  we  have  made 
unto  our  Lord,  and  come  and  dwell  in 
the  midst  of  us  and  let  us  be  thy  people.  Their/ears. 
Besides,  Lord,  we  do  not  know  but  that 
to  this  day  many  Diabolians  may  yet  be  lurking 
in  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  they  will  betray  us 
when  thou  shalt  leave  us,  into  the  hands  of  Diabo- 
lus  again;  and  who  knows  what  designs,  plots  or 
eoatrivances,  have  passed  betwixt  them  about  thes$ 


130  tt'HE  HOLY  WAR. 

things  already ;  loth  we  are  to  fall  again  into  his 
horrible  hands.  Wherefore  let  it  please  thee  to  ac- 
cept of  our  palace  for  thy  place  of  residence,  and 
of  the  houses  of  the  best  men  in  our  town,  for  the 
reception  of  thy  soldiers,  and  their  furniture." 

Then  said  the  Prince,  "  If  I  come  t* 
ThePrince'syour  town,  will  ye  suffer  me  further  to 
question  to  prosecute  that  which  is  in  mine  heart, 
Mansoul.  against  mine  enemies  and  yours  :  yea, 
will  you  help  me  in  my  undertakings  P 
Their  ans-  They  answered*  "  We  know  not  what 
wer.  we  shall  do,  we  did  not  think  once  that 

we  should  have  been  such  traitors  to 
Shaddai  as  we  have  proved  to  be :  what  then  shall 
we  gay  to  our  Lord  ?  let  him  put  no  trust  in  his 
saints,  let  the  Prince  dwell  in  our  castle,  and  make 
of  our  town  a  garrison ;  let  him  set  his  noble  cap- 
tains, and  his  warlike  soldiers  over  us  :  yea,  let  him 
conquer  us  with  his  love,  and  overcome  us  with  his 
grace,  and  then  surely  shall  he  be  but  with  us,  and 
help  us,  as  he  was,  and  did  that  morning  that  our 
pardon  was  read  unto  us ;  we  shall  comply  with  this 
our  Lord,  and  with  his  ways,  and  fall  in  with  his 
word  against  the  mighty." 

One  word  more,  and  thy  servants  have  done,  and 
in  this  will  trouble  our  Lord  no  more,  "  We  know 
not  the  depth  of  the  wisdom  of  thee  our  Prince. 
Who  could  have  thought,  that  had  been  ruled  by 
his  reason,  that  so  much  sweet  as  we  do  now  enjoy, 
should  have  come  out  of  those  bitter  trials  where- 
with we  were  tried  at  the  first  ?  but,  Lord,  let  light 
go  before,  and  let  love  come  after  :  yea,  take  us  by 
the  hand,  and  lead  us  by  thy  counsels,  and  let  this 
always  bide  upon  us,  that  all  things  shall  be  for  the 
best  for  thy  servants,  to  come  to  our  Mansoul,  and 
do  as  it  pleasefh  thee;  or,  Lord,  come  to  our  Man- 
soul, do  what  thou  wilt,  so  thou  keepest  us  from  sin- 
ning, and  makest  us  serviceable  to  thy  Majesty." 

Then  said  the  Prince  to  the  town  of 
He  consent-  Mansoul  again,  "  Go,  return  to  your 
eth  to  dwell  houses  in  peace,  I  will  willingly  in  this 
inMansoul,  comply  with  your  desires  ;  I  will  remove 


<T«E  HOLY  WAR.  ]$j 

uy  royal  pavilion,  I  will  draw  up  my  for-  and  promi- 
ses before  Eye-gaje  to-morrow,  and  so  ccth  to  com* 
will  march  forwards  into  the  town  of  in  to-?nor-< 
Mansoul ;  I  will  possess  myself  of  the  row. 
castle  of  Mansoul,  and  wiJl  set  my  sol- 
diers over  you ;  yea,  I  will  yet  do  things  in  Man- 
soul that  cannot  be  paralleled  in  any  nation,  coun- 
try, or  kingdom  wnder  heaven." 

Then  did  the  men  of  Mansoul  give  a  shout,  and 
returned  to  their  houses  in  peace :  They  also  told 
to  their  kindred  and  friends,  the  good  that  Emman- 
uel had  promised  to  Mansoul ;  and,  to-morrow,  said 
they,  he  will  march  into  our  town,  and  take  up  his 
dwelling,  he  and  his  men,  in  Mansoul. 

Then  went  out  the  inhabitants  of  the  MansouVs 
town  of  Mansoul  with  haste  to  the  green  preparation 
trees,   and   to  the   meadows,  to  gather  for  his  re- 
houghs  and  flowers,    therewith  to  strew  ception. 
the  streets  against  their   Prince,  the  son 
of  Shaddai,  should  come  ;  they  also  made  garlands, 
and  other  fine   works,  to  betoken   how  joyful  they 
were,  and  should  be,  to  receive    their  Emmanuel 
into  Mansoul ;  yea,  they  strewed  the  streets  quite 
from  Eye-gate   to  the   Castle-gate,  the  place  where 
the  Prince  should  be.     They  also  prepared  for  his 
coming  what  musick  the  town  of  Mansoul  would  af- 
ford, that  they  might  play  before  him  to  the  place 
^•f  his  habitation. 

So  at  the  time  appointed  he  makes  his  approach 
to  Mansoul,  and  the   gates  were  set  open  for  him, 
there  also  the  ancients  and  members  of  Mansoul  met 
him  to  salute  him  with  a  thousand  welcomes.   Then 
he  arose   and  entered   Mansoul,  he  and  all  his   ser- 
vants.    The  elders  of  Mansoul  did  also  go  dancing 
before   him  till  he  came  to  the  castle- 
gates  ;  and  this  was  the  manner  of  his  He     enters 
going  up    thither;  he  was  clad  in    his  tlu  town  of 
golden  armour,   he  rode   in   his  royal  Mansoul 
chariot,    the  trumpets    sounded    about  and  how, 
him,  the  colours  were  displayed,  his  ien 
thousands  went  up  at  his  feet,  and  the  elders  of 
Mansoyrt  danced   before    hip*.     And  now  were   the 


132  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

walls  of  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul  filled  with  the 
fcramplings  of  the  inhabitants  thereof,  who  went 
up  thither  to  view  the  approach  of  the  blessed 
Prince  and  his  royal  array.  Also,  the  casements, 
windows,  balconies,  and  tops  of  the  houses,  were 
all  now  filled  with  persons  of  all  sorts,  to  behold 
how  their  tow  a  was  to  be  filled  with  good. 

Now  when  he  was  come  so  far  into  the  town  as 
to  the  Recorder's  house,  he  commanded  that  one 
should  go  to  eaptain  Credence,  to  knew  whether 
the  castle  of  Mansoul  was  prepared  to  entertain  his 

royal  presence  (for  the  preparation  of 
Jets.  15.  %.  that  was  left  to  that  captain)  and  word 

was  brought  that  it  was  :  then  was  cap- 
tain Credence  commanded  also  to  eome  forth  with 
his  power  to  meet  the  Prince,  the  which  was,  as  he 

had  commanded,  done,  and  he  conduet- 
Eph.  3. 17.  ed  him  into  the  castle.     This  done,  the 

Prince  that  night  did  lodge  in  the  cas- 
tle with  his  mighty  captains  and  men  of  war,  to  the 
joy  of  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Now  the  next  care  of  the  townsfolk 
The  towns-  was  how  the  captains  and  soldiers  of  the 
men  covet  Prince's  army  should  be  quartered  a- 
rvho  shall  mong  them,  and  the  care  was  not  how 
have  most  they  should  shut  their  hands  of  them, 
of  tlie  sol-  but  how  they  should  fill  their  houses 
diers  that  with  them ;  for  every  man  in  Mansoul 
helongs  to  now  had  that  esteem  for  Emmanuel  and 
the  Prince,  his  men,  that  nothing  grieved  them  more 

than  because  they  were  not  enlarged 
enough,  every  one  of  them,  to  receive  the  whole 
army  of  the  Prince,  yea,  they  counted  it  their  glory 
to  be  waiting  upon  them,  and  would,  in  those  days., 
run  at  their  bidding  like  lacquies.  At  last  they 
eame  to  this  result : 

1.  That  captain  Innocency  should 
Mow  they  quarter  at  Mr.  Reason's. 
werequar-  2.  That  captain  Patience  should 
teredinthe  quarter  at  Mr.  Mind's.  This  Mr.  Mind 
town  of  was  formerly  the  lord  WilibewiiVs  clerk 
MamouL      m  thae  of  the  rebel !i#a. 


THE  HOLY  YTAK.  133 

3.  It  was  ordered  that  captain  Chanty  should 
Iptarter  at  Mr.  Affection's  house. 

4.  That  captain  Good-hope  should  quarter  at 
my  Lord  Mayor's.  Now  for  the  house  of  the  Re- 
corder himself  desired,  because  his  house  was  next 
to  the  castle,  and  because  from  him  it  was  ordered. 
by  the  Prince,  that,  if  need  be,  the  alarm  should 
be  given  to  Mansoul :  It  was,  I  say,  desired  by  him, 
that  captain  Boanerges  and  captain  Conviction 
should  take  up  their  quarters  with  him, -even  they 
and  all  their  men. 

5.  As  for  captain  Judgment  and  cap-  Rom.  6. 19, 
tain  Execution,  my  lord  Wiilbewill  took 

ihem  and  their  men  to  him,  because  he  Eph.  3. 1 7. 

was  to   rule   under   the   Prince   for  the 

good  of  the  town  of  Mansoul   now,  as  he   had  before 

under  the  tyrant  Diabolus  for  the  hurt  and  damage 

thereof. 

6.  And  throughout  the  rest  of  the  town  were 
quartered  Emmanuel's  forces,  but  captain  Credence 
with  his  men,  abode  still  in  the  castie.  So  the 
Prince,  his  captains,  and  his  soldiers,  were  lodged 
in  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Now  the  ancients  and  elders  of  the  town  of  Man- 
soul  thought    that   they    never   should 
have  enough  of  the   Prince  Emmanuel ;  Mansoul 
his  person,  his  actions,    his    words  and  inflamed 
behaviour,  were  so  pleasing,  so  taking,  with  tkeir 
■o  desirable  to  them.     Wherefore   thej'  Prince 
prayed  him,  that   though    the  castle  of  Emmanuel. 
Mansoul  was  his  place  of  residence  (and 
they   desired    that  he  might  dwell   there  for   ever) 
yet  that  he  would   often  visit  the  streets,    houses, 
and   people  of  Mansoul;    for,  said   they,   "Dread 
Sovereign,  thy  presence,  thy  looks,  thy  smiles,  thy 
words  are  life,  and  strength,  and  sinews  of  the  towa 
©f  Mansoul." 

Besides  this,   they  craved  that  they 
might  have,  without  difficulty  or  inter-  They   have 
ruption,   continual    access  unto  him,  so  access  uMo 
for  that   very   purpose,   he  commanded  him* 
that  the  gates  should   stand  onec.  that 
II 


1&4  THE  HOLY  WAJ*. 

they  might  there   see  the  manner  of  his  doings,  the 
fortifications  of  the    place,  and  the  royal  mansion- 
house  of  the  Prince. 
'They  learn     When  he  spake,  they  stopped  all  their 
*f  him.         mouths,  and  gave  audience  ;  and  when 

he  walked,  it  was  their  delight  to  imi- 
tate him  in  his  goings. 

Now  upon  a  time  Emmanuel  made  a  feast  for  the 
town  of  Mansoul,  and  upon  the  feasting  day,  (he 
townsfolk  were  come  to  the  castle  to  partake  of  his 
banquet.  And  he  feasted  them  with  ail  manner  of 
jDut  landish  food,  food  that  grew  not  in  the  fields  of 
Mansoul,  nor  in  all  the  whole  kingdom  of  Universe. 
It  was  food  that  came  from  his  Fathers  court,  and 

so  there  was  dish  after  dish  set  before 
Promise  of-  them,  and  they  were  commanded  freely 
ter  promise  to  eat.  But  still  when  a  fresh  dish  wai 
Exod.  16.  set  before  them,  they  would  whisper- 
}  5.  ingly  say  to  each  other,  W  hat  is  it  ?  For 

Brave  en*  they  wist  not  what  to  call  it.  They  drank 
lertain-  also  of  the  water  that  was  made  wine, 
Tnent.  and  were  very  merry  with  him.     There 

Isa.  78.  was  music  also  all  the  while  at  the  table, 
24,25.         and   man  did  eat    angel's   food,  and  had 

honey  given,  him  out  of  the  rock ;  so 
Mansoul  did  eat  the  food  that  was  peculiar  to  the 
court,  yea,  they  had  now  thereof  to  the  full. 

I  must  not  forget  to  tell  you,  that  as  at  this  table 
there  was  musicians,  so  they  were  not  those  of  the 
country,  nor  yet  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  but  they 
were  the  masters  of  the  songs  that  were  sung  at  the 
court  of  Shaddai. 

Now   after  the  feast  was   over,  Em> 
Riddle.         jnanuei  was   for  entertaining  the  towa 

of  Mansoul  with  some  curious  riddles, 
©f  secrets  drawn  by  his  Father's  secretary,  by  the 
skill  and  w  isdom  of  Shaddai ;  the  like  to  these  there 

is  not  in  any  kingdom.  These  riddles 
TJte  holy  were  made  upon  King  Shaddai  himself, 
scriptures,    and  upon  Emmanuel  his  son,  and  upon 

his  wars  and  doings  with  Mansoul. 
HintmiiHel   a!se  esuouiidea   Mto  them  some  ef 


S8E  HOLY  WAR.  13$ 

these  riddles  himself;  but  oh,  how  they  were  light- 
ened !  they  saw  what  they  never  saw,  they  could 
not  have  thought  that  such  rarities  could  have  been 
couched  in  so  few  and  such  ordinary  words.  I  told 
you  before  whom  these  riddles  did  concern ;  and  as 
they  were  opened,  the  people  did  evidently  sec 
'twas  so,  yea,  they  did  gather  that  the  things  them- 
■elves  were  a  kind  of  portraiture,  and  that  of  Em- 
manuel himself;  for  when  they  read  in  the  scheme 
where  the  riddles  were  writ,  and  looked  in  the  face 
©f  the  Prince,  things  looked  so  like  the  one  to  the  ci- 
ther, (hat  Mansoul  could  not  forbear  but  say,  "This 
is  the  lamb,  this  is  the  sacrifice,  this  is  the  rock,  this 
Is  the  red  cow,  this  is  the  door,  and  this  is  the  way  ;" 
with  a  great  many  other  things  more. 

And  thus  he  dismissed  the  town  of  Mansoul.  But 
can  you  imagine  how   the  people  of  the  corporation 
were   taken    with    this  entertainment? 
Oh !  they    were   transported    with  joy,  Tlie  end  of 
they  were  drowned  with   wonderment,  their     ban- 
while    they    saw    and  understood,   and  quel. 
considered    what  their   Emmanuel   en- 
tertained them  withal,  and  what  mysteries  he  open- 
ed to  them;  and  when   they  were  at  home  in  their 
houses,  and  in  their  most  retired  places,  they  could 
not  but  sing  of  him,  and  of  his  actions.     Yea,  so  ta- 
ken were  the  townsmen  now   with  their  Prince,  that 
they  would  sing  of  him  in  their  sleep. 

Now  it  was  in  i\ te  heart  of  the  Prince 
Emmanuel   to  new    model    the   town  of  Mansoul 
Mansoul,  and  to  put  it  into  such  a  con-  must   be 
ditionas  might  be  most  pleasing  to  him,  new  mo- 
3nd  that  might  best  stand  with  the  pro-  delled. 
fit  and  security  of  the   now    flourishing 
town  of  Mansoul.     He  provided  also,  against  insu^ 
rections  at  home,  and  invasions  from  abroad ;  such 
love  had  he  for  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul. 

Wherefore  he  first  of  all  commanded, 
that  the  great    slings   that  were  brought  The  in- 
from  his  father's  court,  when   he  came  struments 
to  the  war  of  Mansoul,  should  be  mount-  of    war 
ed,  seme  upon  the   battlements  ©*'  ther  mounted, 


I3VC  THE  HOLY  WAR, 

A  native-  eastle,  some  upon  the  lowers,  for  theie 
less  terri-  were  towers  in  the  town  of  Mansoul, 
tie  inslru-  towers  now  built  by  Emmanuel,  since  he 
vient  in  came  thither.  There  was  also  an  ia- 
Manscul.      strument  invented  by  Emmanuel,  since 

he  was  to  throw  stones  from  the  castle  of 
Mansoul  out  at  Mouth-gate;  and  instrument  that 
could  not  be  resisted,  nor  that  would  miss  of  execu- 
tion ;  wherefore,  for  the  wonderful  exploits  that  it 
did  when  used,  it  went  without  a  name,  and  it  was 
committed  to  the  care  of,  and  to  be  managed  by  the 
brave  captain,  the  captain  Credence,  in  case  of  war. 
This  done,  Emmanuel  called  the  lord 
WiUbewill  Wilibewill  to  him,  and  gave  him  in 
promoted      commandment  to  take  care  of  the  gates, 

the  walls  and  towers  in  Mansoul ;  also, 
t£e  Prince  gave  him  the  militia  into  his  hand,  and 
a  special  charge  to  withstand  all  insurrections  and 
tumults  that  might  be  made  in  Mansoul  against  the 
peace  of  our  Lord  the  King,  and  the  peace  and 
tranquility  of  the  town  of  Mansoul.  He  also  gave 
him  in  commission,  that  if  he  found  any  of  the  Dia- 
bolians  lurking  in  any  corner  in  the  famous 
(own  of  Mansoul,  he  should  forthwith  apprehend 
(hem,  and  slay  them  ;  or  commit  them  to  safe  cus- 
tody, that  they  may  be  proceeded  against  according 
to  law. 

Then  called  he  unto  him  the  lord  Un- 
My  lord  demanding,  who  was  the  old  lord 
Mayor  mayor,   he  that  was   put  out  of  place 

put  into  when  Diabolus  took  the  town,  and  put 
place*  him  into  his  former  office  again,  and  it 

became  his  place  for  his  life-time.  He 
bid  him  also  that  he  should  build  him  a  palace  near 
Eye-gate,  and  that  he  should  build  it  in  fashion  like 
a  tower  for  a  defence.  He  bid  him  also,  that  he 
should  read  in  the  revelation  of  mysteries  all  the 
days  of  his  life,  that  he  might  know  how  to  perform 
his  office  aright. 

He  also  made  Mr.  Knowledge  the 
Mr.  Know-  Recorder,  not  ef  contempt  to  old  Mr. 
ledge  made  Conscience,  who   had   been    Reorder 


THE  HOLY  WAR,  I37 

before,  but  for  that  it  was  in  his  prince-  Recorder. 
]y  mind  to  confer  upon  Mr.  Conscience 
another  employ,  of  which  he  told  the  old  gentleman 
he  should  know  more  hereafter. 

Then  he  commanded  that  the  image  of  Diabolus 
should  be  taken  down  from  the  place  where  it  was 
set  up,  and  that  they  should  destroy  it  utterly,  beat- 
ing it  into  powder,  and  casting  it  into  the  wind 
without  the  town  wall ;  and  that  the  image  of  Shad- 
dai,  his  Father,  should  be  set  up  again, 
with  his  own,  upon  the  castle-gates;  The  image 
and  that  it  should  be  more  fairly  drawn  ofthcPrince 
than  ever  ;  for  as  much  as  both  his  Fa-  andhis  Fa- 
ther and  himself  were  come  to  Mansoul,  thcr  set  up 
in  more  grace  and  mercy  than  hereto-  again  in 
fore ;  he  would  also,  that  his  name  Mansoul. 
should  be  fairly  engraven  upon  the  Rev.  22.  4. 
frontof  the  town,  and  that  it  should  be  done  in  the 
best  of  gold,  for  the  honour  of  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

After  this  was  done,  Emmanuel  gave 
eut  a   commandment,   that   those   three  Soyne  Dia- 
great  Diaboiians   should   be    apprehen-  bolians 
«ied,  namely,  the  two  late  lord  mayors,  committed 
to  witj  Mr.    Incredulity,    Mr.   Lustings,  to     prison 
and  Mr.  Forgetgood  the  Recorder.     Be-  under     tJte 
sides    these,  there  were    some  of  them  hand        of 
that  Diabolus  made  burgesses  and  alder-  Mr.  True- 
men  in  Mansoul,   that    were   committed  man       the 
to  ward  by  the  hand  of  the  now  valiant,  keeper. 
and   now   right   noble,   the    brave    lord 
"Willbewill. 

And  these  were  their  names,  alderman  Atheism, 
alderman  Heardheart,  and  alderman  Falsepeace. 
The  burgesses  were  Mr.  Notruth,  Mr.  Pitiless,  Mr. 
Jlaughty,  with  the  like.  These  were  committed 
fc>  close  custody,  and  the  jailor's  name  was  Mr. 
Trueman;  this  Trueman  was  one  of  those  that 
Emmanuel  brought  with  him  from  his  Fathers 
court,  when,  at  the  first,  he  made  a  war  upon  Dtft- 
bolus  in  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

After  this   the  Prince  gave  a  charge, 
ikat  the  three  sirong  holds,  that  at  the  Die!bott$ 
12* 


138  EHE  HOLY  WAR. 

strong  hold  command  of  Diabolns  the  Diaholiaui 
pulled  built  in  Mansoul,  should  be  demolished, 

down,  and    utterly    pulled    down;    of  which 

holds  and  their  names,  with  their  cap- 
tains and  governors,  you  read  a  little  before. 
But  this  was  long  in  doing,  because  of  the  large- 
ness of  the  places,  and  because  the  stones,  the  tim- 
ber the  iron,  and  alUbe  rubbish  was  to  be  carried 
without  the  town. 

A  court  to  When  this  was  done,  the  Prince  gave 
be  called  to  order,  that  the  lord  mayor  and  alder- 
try  the  Di-  men  in  Mansoul  should  call  a  court  of 
bolians.       judicature,  for   the  trial  and  executioa 

of  the  Diabolians  in  the  corporation, 
new  under  the  charge  of  Mr.  Trueman  the  jailor. 

Now  when  the  time  was  come,  and 
The  prison-  the  court  set,  commandment  was  sent  to 
ers  brought  Mr.  Trueman  the  jailor,  to  bring  the 
down.  prisoners  down  to  the  bar.     Then  were 

the  prisoners  brought  down,  pinioned, 
and  chained   together,  as  the  custom  of  the  town  of 

Mansoul  was.  So  when  they  were  pre- 
The  jury  sented  before  the  lord  mayor,  the  recor- 
impanneVd  der,  and  the  rest  of  the  honourable 
and  nritnes-  bench  ;  first,  the  jury  was  impannelled 
ses  sworn,     and   then   the  witnesses  sworn.      The 

names  of  the  jury  were  these,  Mr.  Be- 
lief, Mr.  Trueheart,  Mr.  Upright,  Mr.  Hatebad,  Mr. 
Lovegood,  Mr.  Seektruth,  Mr.  Heavenlymind,  Mr. 
Moderate,  Mr.  Thankful,  Mr.  Goodwork,  Mr.  Zeai- 
for-good,  and  Mr.  Humble. 

The  names  of  the  witnesses  were  Mr.  Knowall, 
Mr.  Telltrue,  Mr.  Hatelies,  with  my  lord  Willbewilt 
and  his  man,  if  need  were. 

So  the  prisoner*  were  set  to  the  bar  ; 
Doright  then  said  Mr.  Doright  (for  he  was  the 
the  clerk,  town  clerk)  set  Atheism  to  the  bar,  jail- 
or. So  he  was  set  to  the  bar.  Then  said 
Atheism  set  the  elerk,  Atheism,  hold  up  thy  band  : 
to  the  bar.     Thou   art  here  indicted  by  the  name  of 

Atheism,  an  intruder  upon  the  town  of 
Mis  indictr  U^mm\7  for  that  tbou  hast  pernieitusl j 


SHE  HOLY  WAR.  !$• 

and  doltishly  taught  and  maintained  that  ment. 
there  is  no  God,  and  so  no  heed  to  be  ta- 
ken of  religion.     This  thou  hast  done  against  the 
being,  honour,  and  glory  of  the  King,  and  against 
thf  peace  and  safety  of  the  town  of  Mansoul.  What 
•ayest  thou,  art  thou  guilty  of  this  indictment  or  not  ? 

Atheism.  Not  guilty. 

Clerk.  Crier,  call  Mr.  KnowaH,  Mr.  Telitrue  and 
Mr.  Hatelies  into  the  court. 

So  they  were  called  and  came  forth. 

Clerk.  You  the  witnesses  for  the  King,  look  upon 
the  prisoner  at  the  bar.     Do  you  know  him  ? 

Knowall.  Yes,  my  Lord,  we  know  him,  his  name 
is  Atheism,  he  has  been  a  very  pestilent  fellow 
many  years  in  the  miserable  town  of  Mansoul. 

Clerk.  You  are  sure  you  know  him? 

Knowall.  Know  him!  yes,  my  Lord;  I  have 
lieretofore  too  often  been  in  his  company,  to  be  at 
this  time  ignorant  of  him.  He  is  a  Diabolian,  the 
son  of  a  Diabolian,  I  knew  his  grandfather  and  his 
father. 

Clerk.  Well  said,  he  standeth  here  indicted  by 
the  name  of  Atheism,  &c.  and  is  charged  that  he 
hath  maintained  and  taught  that  there  is  no  God, 
and  so  no  heed  need  be  taken  of  any  religion.  What 
i ay  you,  the  King's  witnesses,  to  this  ;  is  he  guilty 
or  not  ? 

Knowall.  My  lord,  I  and  he  were  once  in  Vilfain'f 
lane  together,  and  he,  at  that  time,  did  briskly  talk  of 
divers  opinions,  and  then  and  there  I  heard  him  say, 
that  for  his  part,  he  did  believe  that  there  was  no 
God ;  but,  said  he,  I  can  profess  one,  and  be  as  reli- 
gious too,  if  the  company  I  am  in,  and  the  circum- 
stances of  other  things,  should  put  me  upon  it. 

Clerk.  You  are  sure  you  heard  him  say  thus  ? 

Knowall.  Upon  mine  oath  I  heard  him  say  thus. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Telitrue,  what  say  you  to  the  King's 
judges,  touching  the  prisoner  at  the  bar  ? 

Telitrue.  My  Lord,  I  formerly  was  a  great  com- 
panion of  his,  for  the  which  I  now  repent  me,  and  I 
have  often  heard  him  say,  and  that  with  very  great 
stomachfulness,  that  he  believed  thert  was  neither 
Cod,  angel,  nor  spirit. 


140  THE  HOLY  WA&. 

Clerk.  Where  did  you  hear  him  say  so  ? 

Tt lit rue.  Ira  Biackmoutb-lane  and  in  Blasphemy's 
row,  and  in  many  other  places  besides. 

Clerk.  Have  you  much  knowledge  of  him  ? 

Telltvue.  I  know  him  to  be  a  Diabolian,  the  s»n 
•f  r  Diabolian,  and  an  horrible  man  to  deny  a  deity : 
his  father's  name  was  Neverbegood,  and  he  had 
more  children  than  this  Atheism.  I  have  no  more 
to  say. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Hatelies  look  upon  the  prisoner  at  the 
bar  :  Do  you  know  him  ? 

Hatelies.  My  Lord,  this  Atheism  is  one  of  the  vi- 
lest wretches  that  ever  I  came  near  or  had  to  do 
with,  in  my  life.  1  have  heard  him  say,  that  there 
is  no  God;  that  there  is  no  world  to  come;  no  sin 
nor  punishment  hereafter :  and  moreover,  I  have 
heard  him  say,  that  'twas  as  good  to  go  to  a  whore- 
house, as  to   hear  a  sermon. 

Clerk.  Where  did  you  hear  him  say  these   things  ? 

Hatelies.  In  Drunkard Vrow, Just  at  Rascal-lane's, 
end,  at  a  house  in  which  Mr.  Impiety  lived. 

Clerk.  Set  him  by,  jailor,  and  set  Mr.  Lustings  to 
the  bar. 

Lustings  set  to  the  bar. 
His  indict-       Mr.   Lustings,   Thou  art  here  indict- 
tnent.  ed  by  the  name  of  Lustings,  an  intruder 

upon  the  town  ©f  Mansoul,  for  that  tnoa 
hast  devilishly  and  traitorously  taught,  by  practice 
and  filthy  words,  that  it  is  lawful  and  profitable  to 
man  to  give  way  to  his  carnal  desires;  and  that  thou 
for  thy  part,  hast  not,  nor  never  will  deny  thyself 
any  sinful  delight,  as  long  as  thy  name  is  Lustings. 
How  s ayest  thou,  art  thou  guilty  of  this  indictment 
•r  not  ? 

Lustings.  My  Lord,  I  am  a  man  of  high 
His  plea,  birth,  and  have  been  used  to  pleasures 
and  pastimes,  and  greatness  :  I  have  not 
been  wont  to  he  snubbed  for  my  doings,  but  have 
been  left  to  follow  my  will  as  if  it  were  law.  And 
it  seems  strange  to  me,  that  I  should  this  day  be 
called  unto  question  for  that,  that  not  only  I,  but  al- 
most all  men,  do  either  secretly  or  openly  cou*t£- 
aaace,  love  and  approve  ef« 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  i4J 

Clerk.  Sir,  we  concern  not  ourselves  with  your 
greatness,  though  the  higher  the  better  you  should 
have  been  :  but  we  are  concerned,  and  so  are  you 
now,  about  an  indictment  preferred  against  you* 
How  say  you,  are  you  guilty  of  it  or  not  ? 

Lutings.  Not  guilty. 

Clerk.  Crier,  call  upon  the  witnesses  to  stand  fortk 
and  give  their  evidence. 

Crier.  Gentlemen,  you  the  witnesses  for  the  King, 
come  and  give  in  your  evidence  for  our  Lord  the 
King,  against  the  prisoner  at  the  bar. 

Clerk.  Come  Mr.  Knowall,  look  upon  the  prison- 
er at  the  bar :  Do  you  know  him : 

Knowall.  Yes,  my  Lord,  I  kaow  him. 

Clerk.  What's  his  Bame? 

Knowall.  His  name  is  Lustings,  he  was  the  son  of 
•ne  Beastly,  and  his  mother  bare  him  in  Flesh-street; 
she  was  one  Evil-concupiscence's  daughter.  I  knew 
all  the  generation  of  them. 

Clerk.  Well  said,  you  have  heard  his  indictment, 
what  say  you  to  it,  is  he  guilty  of  the  things  charged 
against  him  or  not  ? 

Knowall.  My  Lord,  he  has,  as  he  saith,  been  a 
great  man  indeed  ;  and  greater  in  wickedness  than 
by  pedigree,  more  than  a  thousand  fold. 

Clerk.  But  what  do  you  know  of  his  particular 
ac(ions,  and  especially  with  reference  to  his  indict- 
ment? 

Knowall.  I  know  him  to  be  a  swearer,  a  liar,  a  sab- 
bath-breaker; know  him  to  be  a  fornicator,  and  an 
unclean  person ;  I  know  him  to  be  guilty  of  abun- 
dance of  evils.  He  has  been  to  my  knowldge,  a 
very  filthy  man. 

Clerk.  But  where  did  he  use  to  commit  his  wick- 
edness ;  in  some  private  corner,  or  mere  open  and 
shamelessly  ? 

Knowall.  All  the  town  over,  my  Lord. 

Clerk.  Come,  Mr.  Telltrue,  what  have  yon  to  say 
for  our  Lord  the  King,  against  the  prisoner  at  the 
liar  ? 

Telltrue.  My  Lord,  all  that  the  first  witness  has 
said,  I  know  tt  be  true,  and  a  great  deal  more  bah 
sides. 


142  THE  HOLY  WA-K, 

Clerk.  Mr.  Lustings,  do  you  hear  what  theae  gea* 
tlemen  say? 

hustings.  I  wag  ever  of  opinion  that 
His  second  the  happiest  life  that  a  man  could  live 
plea.  on  earth,  was  to  keep  himself  back  from 

nothing  that  he  desired  in  the  world }  nor 
have  I  been  false  at  any  time  to  this  opinion  of 
mine,  but  have  lived  in  the  love  of  my  notions  all 
my  days.  Nor  was  I  ever  so  churlish,  having  found 
such  sweetness  hi  them  myself,  aa  to  keep  the  com- 
mendations of  them  from  others. 

Then  said  the  court,  There  hath  proceeded  enough 
from  his  own  mouth  to  lay  him  open  to  condem*- 
nation,  wherefore  set  him  by  jailor,  and  set  Mr.  In- 
credulity to  the  bar. 

Incredulity  set  to  the  bap. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Incredulity,  thou  art  here  His  indict* 
indicted  by  the  name  of  Incredulity,  an  ment. 
intruder  upon  the  town  of  Mansoul,  for 
that  thou  hast  feloniously  and  wickedly,  and  that 
when  thou  wert  an  officer  in  the  town  of  Mansoul, 
made  head  upon  the  captains  of  the  great  King  8had- 
dai,  when  they  came  and  demanded  possession  of 
Mansoul;  yea,  thou  didst  bid  defiance  lo  the  name, 
forces,  and  cause  of  the  King,  and  didst  also,  as  did 
Diabolus  thy  captain,  stir  up  and  encourage  the 
town  of  Mansoul  to  mike  head  against,  and  resist 
the  said  force  of  the  King.  'What  say  est  thou  to  this 
indictment,  art  thou  guilty  of  it  or  not  ? 

Then  said  Incredulity,  I  know  not  His  plea. 
Shaddai,  i  love  my  old  prince,  I  thought 
it  my  duty  to  be  true  to  my  trust,  and  to  do  what  I 
could  to  possess  the  minds  of  the  men  of  Mansoul, 
to  do  their  utmost  to  resist  strangers  and  foreigners, 
and  with  might  to  fight  against  them.  Nor  have 
I,  nor  shall  I  change  mine  opinion  for  fear  of  trou- 
ble,  though  you,  at  present,  are  possessed  of  place 
and  power. 

Then  said  the  court,  the  man  as  you  see  is  in- 
corrigible, he  is  for  maintaining  his  viiwinies  iy 
stoutness  of  words,  and  ais  rebellion  with  impudent 
confidence.  And  therefore  set  him  by,  jailor,  aa* 
let  Mr,  Forgetgood  to  the  bar. 


'JFHE  HOLY  If  Alt.  14S 

Forgetgood  at  the  bar. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Forgetgood,  Thou  art  indicted  by  the 
name  of  Forgetgood,  an  intruder  upon  the  town  of 
Mansoul,  for  that  thou,  when  the  whole  affairs  of  the 
town  of  Mansoul  were  in  thy  hand,  didst  utterly  for- 
get to  serve  them  in  what  was  good,  and  didst  fall 
in  with  the  tyrant  Diabolus  against  Shaddai  the 
King,  against  bis  captains  and  all  his  host,  to  the 
doshonour  of  Shaddai,  the  breach  of  his  law,  and  the 
endangering  of  the  destruction  of  the  famous  tow* 
of  Mansoul.  What  say  est  thou  to  this  indictment, 
art  thou  guilty  or  not  guilty  ? 

Then  said  Forgetgood,  Gentlemen, 
and  at  this  time  ray  judges;  as  to  the  His  plea* 
indictment  by  which  I  stand  accused  of 
several  erimes  before  you,  pray  attribute  my  for- 
getfulness  to  mine  age,  and  not  to  my  wilfulness} 
to  the  craziness  of  my  brain,  and  not  the  careless- 
ness of  my  mind,  and  then  1  hope  I  may,  by  your 
charity,  be  excused  from  great  punishment,  though 
I  be  guilty. 

Then  said  the  court,  Forgetgood,  Forgetgood, 
thy  forgetfulness  of  good  was  not  sim;dy"bl  frai«ly^ 
but  of  purpose  ;  and  for  that  thou  didst  loath  to  keep 
▼irtuous  things  in  thy  mind.  What  was  bad  thou 
#ouldst  retain,  but  what  was  good  thou  couldst  not 
abide  to  think  of;  thy  age  therefore,  and  thy  pre- 
tended craziness,  thou  makes*  use  of  to  blind  the 
•ourt  withal,  and  as  a  cloak  to  cover  thy  knavery. 
But  let  us  hear  what  the  witnesses  have  to  say  for 
the  King  against  the  prisoner  at  the  bar;  is  he  guil- 
ty of  this  indictment  or  not  ? 

Hate.  My  Lord,  I  have  heard  this  Forgetgood  saj% 
that  he  could  never  abide  to  think  of  goodness,  no 
not  for  a  quarter  of  an  hour. 

Clerk.  Where  did  you  hear  him  say  so  ? 

Hate.  In  Alibase-lane,  at  a  house  next  door  t© 
the  sign  of  the  Conscience  seared  with  a  hot  iron. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Knowall,  what  can  you  say  for  our 
Lord  the  King  against  the  prisoner  at  the  bar  ? 

Knew.  My  Lord,  1  know  this  man  well,  he  is  a 
Diabolism,  the  son  of  a  Diabolian ;  iua  father's  name 


344  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

was  Lovenaught,  and  for  him,  I  have  often  hea 
him  say,  that  he  counted  the  very  thoughts  of  good 
■ess  the  most  burdensome  thing  in  the  world. 

Clerk.  Where  have  you  heard  him  say  these 
words  ? 

Know.  In  Flesh-lane,  right  opposite  to  the  church. 

Then  said  the  clerk,  Come,  Mr.  Telltrue,  give  in 
your  evidence  concerning  the  prisoner  at  the  bar, 
about  that  for  which  he  stands  here,  as  you  see  in- 
dicted before  this  honourable  court. 

Tell.  My  lord,  I  have  heard  him  often  say,  he  had 
rather  think  of  the  vilest  thing,  than  of  what  is  con- 
tained in  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

Clerk.  Where  did  you  hear  him  say  such  grievous 
words  ? 

Tell.  Where?  in  a  great  many  places.  Particu- 
larly, in  Nauseous  street,  in  the  house  of  one  Mr, 
Shameless,  and  in  Filth-lane,  at  the  sign  of  the  Re- 
probate, next  door  to  the  Descent  into  the  pit. 

Court.  Gentlemen,   you  hare  heard   the  indict- 
ment, his  plea,  and  the  testimony  ef  the  witnesses. 
Jailor,  set  Mr.  Hardheart  to  tHe  bar. 
Hardheart  set  to  the  bar. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Hard-heart,  thou  art  here  indicted  by 
the  name  of  Hardheart,  an  intruder  upon  the  town 
©f  Mansoul,  for  that  thou  didst,  most  desperately 
and  wickedly,  possess  the  town  ef  Mansoul  with 
impenitency  and  obdurateness,  and  didst  keep  them 
from  remorse  and  sorrow  for  their  evils,  all  the  time 
•f  their  apostacy  from,  and  rebellion  against  the 
blessed  King  Shaddai :  what  say  est  thou  to  this  inr 
•Uctment  art  thou  guilty  or  not  guilty  ? 

Hard.  My  Lord,  I  never  knew  what  remorse  or 
•orrow  meant  in  all  my  life  ;  I  am  impenetrable,  I 
care  for  no  man :  nor  can  I  be  pierced  with  men's 
griefs,  their  groans  will  riot  enter  into  my  heart ; 
whomsoever  I  mischief,  whomsoever  I  wrong,  to  me 
it  is  music,  when  to  others  mourning. 

Court.  You  see  the  man  is  a  right  Diabolian,  and 
has  convicted  himself.  Set  him  by,  jailor,  and  set 
Mr.  Fafc^peace  to  the  bar. 

Falsep&uoe  set  t©  the  bar.- 


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mm  HOLY  WAR.  145 

Qterk.  Mr.  Falsepeace,  thou  art  here  His  indict* 
indicted  by  the  name  of  Falsepeace,  an  mtnt. 
intruder  upon  the  town  of  Mansoul,  for 
that  thou  didst  most  wickedly  and  satanically  bringi 
hold  and  keep  the  town  ©f  Mansoul,  both  in  her 
apostacy,  and  in  toer  hellish  rebellion,  in  a  false, 
groundless  and  dangerous  peace,  and  damnable  se* 
ourity,  to  the  dishonour  of  the  King,  the  transgres- 
sion of  his  law,  and  the  great  damage  of  the  town  of 
Mansoul.  What  sayest  thou,  art  thou  guilty  of  this 
indictment  or  not  ? 

Then  said  Mr-.  Falsepeace,  Gentlemen, 
and  you  now  appointed  to  be  my  judges,    Mis  ple%. 
I    acknowledge    that  my  name  is    Mr. 
Peace,  but  that  my  name  is  Falsepeace  I  utterly 
deny.     If  your  honours  shall  please  to  send  for  any 
that    do  intimately  know  me,  or   for  the   midwife 
that  laid  my  mother  of  me,  or  for  the  gossips  that 
were  at  my  christening,  they  will  any  or  ail  of  them 
prove,  that  ray  name  is  not  Falsepeace, 
but  Peace.     Wherefore  I  cannot  plead     He  denies 
to  this  indictment,  for  as  much  as  my     his  name. 
name  is   not  inserted  therein,    and   as 
Peace  is  my  true  name,  so  also  are  my  conditions.    I 
was  always  a  man  that  loved  to  live  quiet,  and  what 
I  loved  myself,  that  I  thought  others  might  like  also. 
Wherefore,  when  I  saw  any  of  my  neighbours  to  la- 
bour under  a  disquieted  mind,  I  endeavoured  to  help 
them  what  I  could,  and  many  instances  of  this  good 
temper  of  mine  I  can  give. 

First,  When,  at  the  beginning,  our  town  of  Man«- 
soul  did  decline  the  ways  of  Shaddai,  they,  some  of 
them,  afterwards  began  to  have  disquie- 
ting   reflections    upon   themselves    for   Pleads  hfe 
what  they  had  done;  but  I, as  one  trou-  goodness. 
bled  to  see  them  disquieted,  presently 
sought  means  to  get  them  quiet  again. 

Secondly,  When  the  ways  of  the  old  world  and  of 
Bodom  were  in  fashion,  if  any  thing  happened  to  mo- 
lest those  that  were  for  the  customs  of  the  pre3ent 
times,  I  laboured  to  make  them  quiet  again,  aad  to 
tense  them  to  act  without  woJestatiw. 
ft 


J46  Wm  HOLY  WAR. 

Thirdly,  To  come  nearer  home,  when  the  wars 
fell  out  between  Shaddai  and  Diabolus,  if  at  any  time 
I  saw  any  of  the  town  of  M ansoul  afraid  of  destruc- 
tion, I  often  used,  by  some  way,  device,  invention 
er  otherwise,  to  labour  to  bring  them  to  peace 
again. 

Wherefore,  since  I  hare  always  been  a  man  of  so 
virtuous  a  temper,  as  some  say  a  peace-maker  is : 
and  if  a  peace-maker  be  so  deserving  a  man,  as  some 
kave  been  bold  to  attest  he  is  :  then  let  me,  gentle- 
men, be  accounted  by  you,  who  have  a  great  name 
Jbr  justice  and  equity  iu  Mansoul,  for  a  man  that  de- 
lerveth  not  this  inhumane  way  of  treatment,  but  lib- 
erty and  also  a  licence  to  seek  damage  of  those  that 
kave  been  my  accusers. 

Then  said  the  clerk,  Crier  m?ke  a  proclamation. 

Crier.  *  O  yes,  Forasmuch  as  the  prisoner  at  the 
fear  hath  denied  his  name  to  be  that  which  was  men- 
tioned in  the  indictment,  the  court  requireth,  that  if 
ttiere  be  any  in  this  place  that  can  give  information 
to  the  court,  of  the  original  and  right  name  of  the 
prisoner,  they  should  come  forth  and  give  in  their 
evidence,  for  the  prisoner  stands  upon  his  own  inno- 
eency.' 

New  wit-  Then  carae  two  into  the  court,  and  de- 
nesses  come  sired  that  they  might  have  leave  to  speak 
in  against  what  they  knew  concerning  the  prisoner 
him*  at  the  bar;  the  name  of  the  ene   was 

Searchtruth,  and  the  name  of  the  other 
Vouchtruth :  so  the  court  demanded  of  these  men, 
if  they  knew  the  prisoner,  and  what  they  could  say 
eoncerning  him,  for  he  stands,  said  they,  upon  hk 
own  vindication  ? 

Then  said  Mr.  Searchtruth,  My  Lord,  I— 

Court  Hold,  give  him  hi3  oath  ;  then  they  sware 
him.     So  he  proceeded. 

Search.  My  Lord,  I  knew,  and  have  known  this 
man  from  a  child,  and  can  attest  that  his  name  is 
Falsepeace.  I  knew  his  father,  his  name  was  Mr. 
Flatterer,  and  his  mother,  before  she  was  married, 
was  called  by  the  name  of  Mrs.  Soothup  ;  and  these 
tyre,  when  t&ey  caaae  together,  lived  net  leng  witk- 


*mm  HOLY  WAR.  u? 

•nt  this  soa*  and  when  he  was  born,  they  called  his 
name  Falsepeace.  I  was  his  play-fellow,  only  I  was 
somewhat  older  than  he;  and  when  his  mother  did 
use  to  call  hira  home  from  his- play,  she  used  to  gay* 
Falsepeace,  Falsepeace,  come  home  quickly,  or  I'll 
fetch  you.  Yea,  I  knew  him  when  he  sucked,  and 
though  I  was  then  but  little,  yet  I  ean  remember,  that 
when  his  mother  did  use  to  sit  with  him  in  her  arms, 
ihe  would  call  hira  twenty  times  together,  my  tittle 
Falsepeace,  my  pretty  Falsepeace,  and  O  my  sweet 
rogue,  Falsepeace  ;  and  again,  0  my  little  bird,  False- 
peace  ;  and  how  do  I  love  my  child"!  The  gossips 
also  know  it  is  thus,  though  he  has  had  the  face  to 
deny  it  in  open  court. 

Then  Mr.  Vouchtruth  was  called  upon,  to  speak 
what  he  knew  of  him.     So  they  sware  him. 

Then  said  Mr.  Vouchtruth,  My  Lord,  all  that  the 
former  witness  hath  said  is  true  ;  his  name  is  False- 
peace,  the  son  of  Mr.  Flatterer,  and  of  Mrs.  Sooth- 
up  his  mother:  and  I  have,  in  former  times,  seen 
him  angry  with  those  that  have  called  htm  any 
thing  else  but  Falsepeace,  for  he  would  say,  that  all 
such  did  mock  and  nick  name  him;  but  this  was  in 
the  time  when  Mr.  Falsepeace  was  a  great  man,  and 
when  the  Diabolians  were  the  brave  men  hi  Man- 
soul. 

Court.  Gentlemen,  you  have  heard  what  these 
two  men  have  sworn  against  the  prisoner  at  the  bar  : 
and  now  Mr.  Falsepeace,  to  you  :  you  have  den  Id 
your  name  to  be  Falsepeace,  yet  }ou  see  that  Ihtse 
honest  men  have  sworn  that  this  is  your  name.  A  % 
to  your  plea,  in  that  you  are  qu  et ;  besides  ihe  mat- 
ter of  your  indictment  you  are  not  by  if  charged  fop 
evil  doing,  because  you  are  a  man  ci  peace,  or  a 
peace  maker  among  your  neighbours  ;  but  for  that 
you  did  wickedly,  and  satanically  bring,  keep,  and 
hold  the  town  of  Mansoul,  both  under  its  aposUcy 
from  and  in  its  rebellion  against  its  King,  in  a  false 
lying  and  damnable  peace,  contrary  to  the  law  of 
Shaddai,  and  to  the  hazard  of  the  destruction  of  the 
then  miserable  town  of  Man  soul.  All  that  you  have 
pleaded  for  yourself  is,  that  you  have  deiiied  yoifr 


143  ram  HOLY  WAR. 

name,  &c.  but  here  you  see  witnesses  to  prove  thalt 
you  are  the  man. 

For  the  peace  that  you  so  much  boast  of  making 
among  your  neighbours,  know  that  peace  that  is 
not  a  companion  of  truth,  and  holiness,  but  that 
which  is  without  this  foundation,  is  grounded  upon 
a  lie,  and  is  both  deceitful  and  damnable ;  so  also 
the  great  Shaddai  hath  said ;  thy  plea  therefore  has 
not  delivered  thee  from  what,  by  the  indictment, 
thou  art  charged  with,  but  rather  it  doth  fasten  all 
upon  thee. 

But  thou  shalt  have  very  fair  play ;  let  us  call 
the  witnesses  that  are  to  testify  as  to  matter  ef  fact, 
and  see  what  they  have  to  say  for  our  Lord  the  King, 
against  the  prisoner  at  the  bar. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Kuowall,  what  say  you  for  our  Lord  the 
King,  against  the  prisoner  at  the  bar? 

Know.  My  Lord,  this  man  hath  for  a  long  time 
Blade  it,  to  my  knowledge,  his  business  to  keep  the 
town  of  Mansoul  in  a  sinful  quietness,  in  the  midst 
ef  all  her  lewdness,  filthiness  and  turmoils;  and 
hath  said,  and  that  in  my  hearing,  Come,  come,  let 
us  fly  from  all  trouble,  on  what  ground  soever  it 
comes :  and  let  us  be  for  a  quiet  and  peaceable  life, 
though  it  wanteth  a  good  foundation. 

Clerk.  Come,  Mr.  Hatelies,  what  have  you  to 
say  ? 

Hale.  My  Lord,  I  have  heard  him  say,  that  peace 
though  in  a  way  of  unrighteousness,  is  better  than 
trouble  with  truth. 

Clerk.  Where  did  yeu  hear  him  say  this  ? 

Hate.  I  heard  him  say  it  in  Folly-yard,  at  the 
Bouse  of  one  Mr.  Simple,  next  door  to  the  sign  of 
ihe  SelMeceiver.  Yea,  he  hath  said  this  to  my 
knowledge  twenty  times  in  that  place. 

Clerk.  We  may  spare  further  witnesses,  this  evi- 
dence is  plain  and  full.  Set  him  by,  jailor,  and  set 
Mr.  Notruth  to  the  bar. 

Notruth  set  to  the  bar. 

Glcrk.  Mr.  Notruth  thou  art  here  indicted  by  the 

name  of  Notruth,  an  intruder  upon  the 

Mis  indict-  town  of  Mansoul,  for  that  thou  hast  al~ 


ME  HOLY  WAK.  14ft 

ways,  to  the  dishonour  of  Shaddai,  and  mcnt. 
the  endangering  of  the  utter  ruin  of  the 
famous  town  of  Mansoul,  set  thyself  to  deface,  and 
utterly  to  spoil  all  the  remainders  of  the  law  and 
image  of  Shaddai,  that  have  been  found  in  Mansoul> 
after  her  deep  apostaey  from  her  king  Diabolus,  the 
envious  tyrant.  What  sayest  thou,  art  thou  guilty  of 
this  indictment  or  not  ? 

No.     Not  guil  ty,  my  Lord.  His  plea. 

Then  the   witnesses  were  called,  and 
Mr.   Knowail  did  first  give  in  his  evi-    Witnesses. 
dence,  against  him. 

Know.  My  Lord,  this  man  was  at  the  pulling  dowa 
of  the  image  of  Shaddai;  yea,  this  is  he  that  did  it< 
with  his  own  hands,  I  myself  stood  by  and  saw  him 
do  it,  and  he  did  it  at  the  comaiandment  of  Diabolus. 
Yea,  this  Mr.  Notruth  did  more  than  this,  he  did  al- 
so set  up  the  horrid  image  of  the  beast  Diabolus  ia 
the  same  place.  This  also  is  he,  that  at  the  bidding 
of  Diabolus,  did  rend  and  tear,  and  cause  to  be  con- 
sumed, all  that  he  could  of  the  remainders  of  the 
law  of  the  King,  eveH  whatever  he  coald  lay  hands 
on  in  Mansou!. 

Clerk.  Who  saw  him  do  this  besides  yourself? 

Hate.  I  did,  my  Lord,  and  so  did  many  more  be- 
sides; for  this  was  not  done  by  stealth,  or  in  a  cor- 
ner, but  in  the  open  view  of  all,  yea,  he  chose 
himself  to  do  it  publicly,  for  he  delighted  in  doing 
of  it. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Notruth,  how  could  you  have  the  face 
to  plead  not  guilty,  when  you  were  so  manifestly  the 
doer  of  all  this  wickedness  ? 

No.  Sir,  1  thought  I  must  say  something,  and  as 
my  name  is,  so  1  speak ;  1  have  been  advantaged 
thereby  before  now,  and  did  not  know  but  by  speak- 
ing no  truth,  I  might  have  reaped  the  same  benefit 
now. 

Clerk.  Set  him  by  jailor,  and  set  Mr.  Pitiless  t* 
the  bar. 

Pitiless  set  to  the  bar. 

Mr.  PitUess,  thou  art  here  indicted  by  His  indj^t- 
tfee  name  of  Pitiless,  an  intruder  upon  nienU 
13* 


<159  EHE  HOLY  WAR. 

the  town  of  Mansoul,  for  that  thou  didst,  most 
traitorously  and  wickedly,  shut  up  all  bowels  of 
compassion,  and  wouldst  aot  suffer  poor  Mansoul  t* 
condole  her  own  misery,  when  she  had  apostatized 
from  her  rightful  King,  hut  didst  evade,  and  at  all 
times  turn  her  mind  away  from  those  thoughts  that 
had  in  them  a  tendency  to  lead  her  to  repentance. 
What  sayest  thou  to  this  indictment  ?  Guilty  or  not 
guilty  ? 

Piti.  Not  guilty  ef  pitilessness :  all  I 
His  plea*      did  was   to  cheer  up  according  to  my 
name,  for  my  name  is  not  Pitiless,  but 
Cheer-up;  and  I  could  not  abide  to  see  Mansoul  in- 
-line to  melancholy. 

Clerk.  How  do  you  deny  your  name,  and  say  it  is 
not  Pitiless,  but  Cheer-up  ?  Call  for  the  witnesses  ; 
what  say  you  the  witnesses  to  this  plea? 

Know.  My  Lord,  his  name  is  Pitiless*;  so  he  hath 
writ  himself  in  all  papers  of  concern,  wherein  he 
has  had  to  do.  But  these  Diabolians  love  to  coun- 
terfeit their  names  :  Mr.  Covetousnes3  covers  him- 
self with  the  name  of  Good-husbandry,  or  the  like: 
Mr.  Pride  can,  when  need  is,  call  himself  Mr.  Neat, 
Mr.  Handsome,  or  the  like  ;  and  so  of  all  the  rest  of 
them. 

Clerk.  Mr.  Telltrue,  what  say  you  ? 

Tell.  His  name  is  Pitiless,  my  Lord,  I  have  knowa 
him  from  a  child,  and  he  hath  done  all  that  wicked- 
ness whereof  he  staads  charged  in  the  indictment ; 
but  there  is  a  company  of  them  that  are  not  acquaint- 
ed with  the  danger  of  damning,  therefore  they  call 
all  those  melancholy  that  have  serious  thoughts  how 
that  state  should  be  shunned  by  them. 

Clerk.  Set  him  by  jailor,  and  set  Mr.  Haughty  t# 
the  bar. 

Haughty  set  to  the  bar. 
His  indict-       Mr.  Haughty,  thou   art  here  indicted 
menU  by  the  name  of  Haughty,  an  intruder  up- 

on the  town  of  Maasoul,  for  that  thoa 
didst  most  traitorously  and  devilishly  teach  th« 
town  of  Mansoul  to  carry  it  loftily  and  stoutly  against 
the  summon*  that  was  given  them  by  the  captains 


3>HE  HOLY  WAI.  \U 

•f  the  King  Shaddai :  Thou  didst  also  teach  the  town 
of  Mansoul  to  speak  contemptuously,  and  vilifying 
of  their  great  King  Shaddai,  and  didst  moreover, 
encourage,  both  by  words  and  examples,  Mansoul  t» 
take  up  arms,  both  against  the  Kins:  and  his  son  Em- 
manuel. How  sayest  thou,  art  thou  guilty  of  thi» 
indictment  or  not  ? 

Haugh.  Gentlemen,   I   have   always 
been  a  man  of  courage  and  valour,  and     Hio  plea* 
have  not  used,  when  under  the  greatest 
clouds,  to  speak  or  hang  down  the  head  like  a  bul- 
rush; nor  did  it  at  all  at  any  time  please  me  to  sec 
men  veil  their  bonnets  to  them  that  have  opposed 
them  :  yea,  though  their  adversaries  seemed  to  have 
ten  times  the  advantage  of  them. 

I  did  not  use  to  consider  who  was  my  foe,  nor 
what  the  cause  was  in  which  I  was  engaged.  It 
was  enough  to  me  if  I  carried  it  bravely,  fought  like 
a  man,  and  came  off  like  a  victor. 

Court.  Mr.  Haughty,  you  are  not  here  indicted 
for  that  you  have  been  a  valiant  man,  nor  for  your 
courage  and  stoutness  in  times  of  distress,  but  for 
that  you  have  made  use  of  this  your  pretended  va- 
lour, to  draw  the  town  of  Mansoul  into  acts  of  re- 
bellion, both  against  the  great  King  and  Emmanuel 
his  sou.  This  is  the  crime  and  the  thing  where- 
with thou  art  charged  in  and  by  the  indictment. 
But  he  made  no  answer  to  that. 

Now  when  the  court  had  thus  far  proceeded  a- 
gainst  the  prisoners  at  the  bar,  then  they  put  thera 
over  to  the  verdict  of  their  jury,  to  whom  they  did 
apply  themselves  after  this  manner. 

Gentlemen  of  the  jury,  you  have  been  The    court 
here,  and  have  seen  these  men,  you  have  to  the  jury. 
heard  their  indictments,  their  pleas,  and 
what  the  witnesses  have  testified  against  Thejurtfs 
them  :  now  what  remains  is,  that  you  do  charge. 
forthwith   withdraw  yourselves  to  some 
place,  where,  without  confusion,  you  may  consider 
of  what  verdict,  in  a  way  of  truth  and  righteousness, 
you  ought  to  bring  in  for  the  King  against  them,  and 
10  bring  it  in  accordingly. 


13&  55HE  HOLY  WAR. 

Then  the  jury,  to  wit,  Mr.  Belief,  Mr.  Truefeedct, 
Mr.  Upright,  Mr.  Hatebad,  Mr.  Lovegood,  Mr. 
Seektruth,  Mr.  Heavenlymind,  Mr.  Moderate,  Mr, 
Thankful,  Mr.  Humble,  Mr.  Goodwork,  ,™  .  , 
and  Mr.  Zealforgood,  withdrew  them-  Pf^ .,  .'" 
selves  in  order  to  their  work ;  now  when  » 
they  were  shut  up  by  themselves,  they 
fell  to  discourse  by  themselves  in  order  to  the  draw- 
ing up  of  their  verdict. 
Their  confer-  And  thus  Mr.  Belief,  for  he  was  tht 
ence  among  foreman,  began:  Gentlemen,  quolk 
themselves.  he,  for  the  men,  the  prisoners  at  the 
bar,  for  my  p&rfe  i  believe  that  they  all 
deserve  death.  Very  right,  said  Mr.  Trueheart,  I 
am  wholly  of  your  opinion:  0  what  a  mercy  is  it, 
said  Mr.  Hatebad,  that  sushi  villains  as  these  are  ap- 
prehended !  Ay,  ay,  said  Mr.  Lovegood,  this  is  one 
of  the  joyful! est  days  that  ever  I  saw  in  my  life. 
Then  said  Mr.  Seektrulh,  I  know  that  if  we  judge 
them  to  death,  our  verdict  shall  stand  before  Shad- 
dai  himself.  Nor  do  I  at  all  question  it,  said  Mr. 
Heavenlymind;  he  said  moreover,  When  all  such 
beasts  as  these  are  cast  out  of  Mansoul,  what  a  good- 
ly town  will  it  be  then  !  then  said  Mr.  Moderate,  it 
is  not  my  manner  to  pass  my  judgment  with  rash- 
ness, but  for  these,  their  crimes  are  so  notorious, 
and  the  witnesses  so  palpable;  that  thai  man  must 
be  wilfully  blind,  who  aaith  the  prisoners  ought  not 
to  die.  Blessed  be  God,  said  Mr.  Thankful,  that 
the  traitors  are  in  safe  custody.  And  I  join  with  you 
in  this  upon  my  bare  knees,  said  Mr.  Humble.  I 
am  glad  also  said  Mr.  Goodwork.  Tlien  said  the 
warm  and  true  hearted  Mr.  Zealforgood,  cut  them 
off,  they  have  been  the  plague,  and  have  sought  the 
destruction  of  Mansoul 

Thus  therefore  being  all   agreed  in  their  verdict, 
they  came  instantly  to  the  court. 

Clerk,  Gentlemen  of  the  jury,  answer 
They  are  all  to  your  names:  Mr.  Belief,  one ;  Mr. 
agreed  of  Trueheart,  two;  Mr.  Upright,  three; 
their  ver-  Mr.  Fatehad,four;  Mr.  Lovegood,  fiv  : 
diet,      and  Air.  Seektruth,  six  >  Mr.  Heavenlymind 


miE  HOLY  WAR.  153 

seven;  Mr.  Moderate,  eight;  Mr.  Thank-  bring  them 
ftil,  nine;  Mr.   Humble  tea ;  Mr.    Good- in  guilty. 
work,    eleven ;    and     Mr.    Zealforgood, 
twelve  :  good  men,  and  hue,  stand  together  ia  yoar 
Terdict.     Are  you  all  agreed  ? 

Jury.  Yes,  my  Lord. 

€lerk.  Who  shall  speak  for  you  ? 

Jury.  Our  foreman. 

Clerk.  You  the  gentlemen  of  the  jury,  being  im- 
pannelled  for  our  Lord  the  King,  to  serve  here  in  a 
matter  of  life  and  death,  have  heard  the  trials  of 
each  of  these  met  the  prisoners  at  the  bar;  what 
say  you,  are  they  guilty  of  that,  and  those  crimes  for 
which  they  stand  indicted,  or  are  they  not  guilty  ? 

Fere.  Guilty,  my  Lord.  The  verdicU 

Clerk.  Look  to  your  prisoaers,jailor. 

This  wa§  done  in  the  morning,  and  in  the  after* 
aoon  they  received  the  sentence  of  death,  accord- 
ing to  the  law. 

The  jailor  therefore  having  received  such  a  charge, 
put  them  all  in  the  inward  prison,  to  preserve  them 
there  till  the  day  of  execution,  which  was  to  be  the 
next  day  in  the  morniag. 

But  now  to  see  how  it  happened,  one  Increduli- 
•f  the  prisoners,   Incredulity  by   name,  ty  breaks 
in  the  interim,  betwixt  the  sentence  and  prison. 
time    of  execution,    brake   prison,  and 
made  his  escape,  and  gets  him  away  quite  out  of  the 
town  of  Mansoul,  and  lay  lurking  in  such  places  and 
holes  as  he  might,  until  he  should  again  have  oppor- 
tunity to  do  the  town  of  Mansoul  mischief,  for  their 
thuo  handling  of  him  as  they  did. 

Now  when  Mr.  Trueman  the  jailor  perceived  that 
he  had  lost  his  prisoner,  he  was  in  a  heavy  taking ; 
because  he,  that  prisoner  we  speak  of,  was  the  very 
worst  of  all  the  gang :  wherefore  first  he  goes  and 
acquaints  my    lord  Mayor,    Mr.  Recorder,  and  my 
lord  Willbewill  with  the  matter,  and  to 
get  of  them  an  order  to  make  search  for  No  Incre- 
him  throughout   the  town  of  Mansoul.  duliiy     in 
So  an  order  he  got  and  search  was  made,  MansQttt: 
but  no  such  man  could  now  be  found  ia 
all  the  town  of  Mansoul. 


1S4  THE  H©LY  WAR. 

All  that  ceuld  he  gathered  was,  that  he  had  lurk- 
ed a  while  ahout  the  outside  of  the  town,  and  that 
ht  ;-e  and  there  one  or  other  had  a  glimpse  of  himr 
as  he  did  mak?  his  escape  out  of  Mansoul ;  one  or 
two  also  did  affirm,  that  they  saw  him  without  the 
town,  going  ap&re  quite  over  the  plain. 
He  is  gone  Now  when  he  was  quite  gone,  it  was  af- 
tv  Diabolus.  firmed  by  one  Mr.  Didsee,*that  he  rang- 
ed all  over  dry  places,  till  he  met  with 
Diabolus  his  friend,  and  where  should  they  meet  one 
another,  but  just  upon  Hellgate-hill. 

But  oh  t*  what  a  lamentable  story  did  the  old  gen- 
tleman tell  to  Diabolus,  concerning  what  sad  alter- 
ation Emmajauel  had  made  in  Mansoul  ! 

As  first,  how  Mansoul,  after  some  de- 
He  tells  lays,  received  a  general  pardon  at  the 
Diabolus  hands  of  Emmanuel,  and  that  thej  had 
what  Em-  invited  him  into  the  town,  and  that  they 
nianuel  had  given  him  the  castle  fbr  bit  posset- 
wow  is  sion.  He  said  moreover,  that  they  had 
doing  in  called  his  soldiers  into  the  town,  and  ce- 
Mansoul.  veted  who  should  quarter  the  most  of 
them  ;  they  also  entertained  him  with 
timbrel,  song  and  dance.  But  that  is,  said  Incredu- 
lity, that  is  the  sorest  vexation  to  me,  that  he  hath 
pulled  down,  O  father,  thy  image,  and  set  up  his  own; 
pulled  down  thy  officers,  and  set  up  his  own.  Fea, 
and  Willbewill,  that  rebel,  who  one  would  have 
thought,  should  never  have  turned  from  us,  he  is 
new  in  as  great  favour  with  Emmanuel  as  he  was 
with  thee.  But  besides  ail  this,  this  Willbewill  has 
received  a  special  commission  from  his  m  ster  te 
search  for,  to  apprehend,  and  to  put  to  death  ail,  and 
all  manner  of  Diaholians  tint  he  shall  find  in  Man- 
soul :  yea,  and  this  Willbewill  has  taken  and  com- 
mitted to  prison  already,  eight  of  ray  Lord's  most 
trusty  friends  in  Mansoul.  Nay  further,  my  Lord, 
with  grief  I  speak  it,  they  have  been  ail  arraigued, 
eondemned,  and  1  doubt,  before  this,  are  executed  \m 
Mansoul.  1  tokl  my  Lord  of  eight,  and  myself  was 
the  ninth,  who  should  assuredly  have  drunk  of  the 
same  cup,  but  that  through  craft,  I,  as  thou  leefcifj 
have  made  mine  escape  from  th*m. 


ihe  holy  yrxn.  I  SB 

When  Biabolus  had  heard  this  lament- 
able  story,  he   yelled,  and  snuffed    up  Dxabolus 
the  wind   like  a  dragon,   and   made  the  yells    at 
sky  to  lock  dark  with  his  roaring;  he  al-  this  news. 
•o  sware  that  he  would  try  to  be  reveng- 
ed on  Mansoul  for  this.     So  teey,  both  he  and  hi* 
eld  friend  Incredulity,  concluded  to  enter  into  great 
consultation,   how    tkey    might   get  to  the  town  of 
Mansoul  again. 

Now  before    this    time    the  day  was 
come  in  which  the  prisoners  in  Mansoul  Rom.  8.1  ft. 
were   to   be   executed;    so   they    were  and  6.   12. 
brought  to  the   cross,  ami  that  by  Man-  13.  14. 
ponl,  in  a  most  solemn  manner:  for  the 
Prince  said,    that  this  should  be  done  by  the  hand 
of  tile  town  of  Mansoul,   that  I  may  see,  said  he,  the 
forwardness  of  my   now  redeemed  Mansoul,  to  keep 
m\  word  and  to  do  nfj  commandment ;  and  that  I 
my  bless    Mansoul   is  doing   this    deed.     Proof  of 
sincerity  pleases    me    welt    M  Mansoul   therefore 
first  lay    their  hands   upon  these  Diabolians    to  de- 
stroy therms. 

So  the  town  of  Mansoul  slew  the*  according  to 
the  word  of  their  Prince  :  but    when   the  prisoners 
were    brought   to    the  cross  to  die,  you  can  hardly 
believe  what   troublesome   work  Mansoul  had  of  it, 
to  put  the   Diabolians  to  death   (for  the  men  know- 
ing that   they   must  die,  and  every  one  of  them  had 
an  implacable  enmity  in  their  hearts  to  Mansoul) 
what  did  they  but  took  courage  at  the  cross,  and  there 
resisted    the    men  of  the    town  of  Man-    ,~7 
■oul!   Wherefore    the    men  of   Mansoul   lneasslsi' 
were  forced  to  cry  out    for    help   to  the  anC€        ** 
captains    and   men  of  war.       Now  the   more  Srace 
great   Shaddai  had  a  secretary  in  the  town,  and   he 
wus   a  great    lover  of  the  men  of  Mansoul,   and  he 
was  at   the  place  of  execution  also  :  so  he,  hearing 
the  men  of  Mansoul  cry  out  against  the 
smugglings   and    unruliness  of  the  pris-  Execution 
oners,  rose  up  from  his  place,  and  came  dene. 
and  put  his  hands  upon  the  hands  of  the  Jto»t-.8.19; 
noa  of  Man*oal.     So  they  crucified  the 


jG  mm  HOLY  WAK. 

Diabolians  that  had  been  a  plague,  a  grief,  and  am 
Offence  to  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Now  when  this  good  work  was  done,  the  Prince 
came  down  to  see,  to  visit,  and  to  sneak 
The  Prince  comfortably    to    the    men    of  Mansoul, 
€cme9 down  and  to   strengthen    their  hands  in  such 
U  congrat-  work.     And  he   ^aid    to  them,  that  by 
Mate  them,  this  act  of  theirs  he  had  proved   them 
and  found  them  to  be  lovers  of  his  per- 
son, observers  of  his  laws,  and  such  as  had  also  res- 
pect to  his    honour.     He  said  moreover 
Ecpromisrs  (to  shew,  them,  that  they  by  this  should 
t*        make  not  be  losers,  nor  their  town  weakened 
them  a  new  byjhe  loss  of  them)  that  he  would  make 
wptain.         them  another  captain,  and  that  of  one  of 
themselves.  And  that  this  captain  should 
be  the  ruler  of  a  thousand,  for  the  good  and  benefit 
•f  the  now  flourishing  town  of  Mansoul. 

So  he  called  one  to  him  whose  name  was  Wait- 
ing and  bid  him  go  quickly  lp  to  the 
Experience  Castle-gate,  and  enquire  for  one  Mr. 
must  be  the  Experience,  that  waited  upon  that  no- 
ncw  cap-  ble  captain,  the  captain  Credence,  and 
tain.  bid   him  come  hither   to  me.     So  the 

messenger,  that  waited  upon  the  good 
Prince  Emmanuel  went,  and  said  as  he  was  com- 
manded. Now  the  youngest  gentleman  was  wait- 
ing to  see  the  captain  train  and  muster  his  men  in 
the  castle-yard.  Then  said  Mr.  Waiting  to  him. 
Sir,  the  Prince  would  that  you  should  come  down 
to  his  highness  forthwith.  So  be  brought  him 
down  to  Emmanuel,  and  he  came  and  made  obeis- 
ance before  him.  Now  the  men  of  the 
The  quali-  town  knew  Mr.  Experience  well,  for  he 
fixations  of  was  born  and  bred  in  Mansoul :  they 
their  new  also  knew  him  to  be  a  man  of  conduct, 
captain.  of  valour,  and  a  person  prudent  in  mat- 
ters ;  he  was  also  a  comely  person,  weH 
spoken,  and  very  successful  in  his  undertakings. 

Wherefore  the  hearts  of  the  town*- 
Manswd  men  were  transported  with  joy,  whe* 
tkkee    it      tfcey  s-aw  tfcat  fefce  Prince  biwseJf  was  se 


THE  HOLY  TfAR.  1£? 

token  with    Mr.    Experience,    that    lie  rvcll. 

needs    make  hirn  captain  over  a 
fert'iJ  of  men, 

£o  with  one  consent  they  bowed  the  knee  before 
I!  quia  luel,   with  a  shout,  and  sud,  "Let  Emmia- 
liei    live   for   ever."       Then   said   the 
prime  to  this  young  gentleman,   whose  The    thing 
ii.: me    was    Mr.    Experience,    I    have  told  to  Mr. 
tho  ight   good    10  confer    upon    thee  a  Expert- 
place  of   trust  and  honour  in    this    my  ence. 
to  vn  of  M  msoul  :  then  the   young  man 
bowed  his  .  head   and  worshipped.     It  is,  said  Em- 
manuel, that   thou    should    be    a  captain,  a  captain 
©vt  r  a  thousand  men  in  my  belovc  \  town  of  Man- 
soul.     Then  s  iitl  the  captain,  "  Let  the  King  live." 
So  the  prince  gave  out  orders  forthwith 
to  the  King's   secretary  that  lie  should  His    com- 
draw  up  for  Mr.   Experience,  a  commit-  mission 
s ion  to  make  him  captain  over  a  thous-  sent  him, 
and  men,    and  let  it    be  brought  to  me, 
said  he,  that  I  tmy  set  to  my  seal.     So  it  was  done 
sis  it  was  commanded.    The  commission  was  drawn 
up,   brought  to    Emmanuel,    and    he    set    his   seal 
thereto.     Then   by   the    hand  of  Mr.    Waiting,  he 
seot  it  away  to  the  captain. 

Now  so  soon  as  the  captain  had  received  b's  com- 
Bi'ssion,  he  souiideth  his  trumpet  for  volunteers, 
and  young  men  come  to  hvm  apace:  yea,  the  great- 
est and  ehjejfest  men  in  the  town,  sent  their  sons  to 
be  listed  under  his  command-  Thus  captain  Ex- 
perience came  under  command  to  Emmanuel,  forthe 
i  <n\  of  $he  (own  of  Maesoul.  He  hc«d 
ti    hs   iit-'i'.i  n&ni  one  Mr.  Skillful,  and  His   under 

is    cornet    one  Mr.    Memory.     His  officers. 
U   der   officers    I  opted  not    name.     His 
i  >ioura  wepe   the   wkue  colours   for  the  1  Sam.  17. 
Iowa  of  M&nsoul,    and   his   escutcheon  38,37. 
v  is   the   dead    lion      nd  the  dead  bear, 
fco  the  Rrjace  returned  'o  his  royal  palace  again. 

Sow  when    he  was    returned    thither,    the  elders 
$f  the  town  of  M  msoul,  to  wit,  the  lord 
■$iei$*Tj    tue    Keoorde^    <\ud    um  uxd  The  elder? 
44 


|53  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

of Mansoul  Willbewill  went  to  congratulate  hi«fe 
congratu-  in  special  way  to  thank  him  for  his  love, 
late  him.  care,  and  the  tender  compassion  which 
he  shewed  to  his  ever  obliged  town  of 
Mansoul.  So  after  a  while,  and  some  sweet  com- 
munion betwixt  them,  the  townsmen  having  solemn- 
ly ended  their  ceremony,  returned  to  their  place  again. 

Emmanuel   also,   at  this  time  appointed  them  a 
day,   wherein    he    would    renew    their 
Me   renews  charter,   yea,    wherein  he  would  renew 
their  char-  and    enlarge  it,  mending  several  faults 
tcr.  therein,  that  Mansoul's  yoke  might   be 

Heb.  8. 13.  yet  more  easy.  AH  this  he  did  without 
Mat.  11.  any  desire  of  theirs,  even  of  his  own 
frankness  and  noble  mind.  So  whea 
lie  had  sent  for  and  seen  their  old  one,  he  laid  it  by, 
and  said,  "  Now  that  which  decayeth  a«d  waxeth 
©Id  is  ready  to  vanish  away."  He  said  moreover* 
the  town  of  Mansoul  shall  have  another,  a  better, 
a  new  one,  more  steady  and  firm  by  far.  An  epi- 
tome hereof  take  as  follows. 

4*  Emmanuel,  Prince  of  Peace,  and  a  great  lover 
of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  I  do  in  tb« 
An  epitome  name  of  my  Father,  and  of  mine  owm 
ff  their new  clemency  give,  grant,  and  bequeath  t# 
charter.  my  beloved  town  of  Mansoul. 
Heb.  8.  13.  "  First,  Free,  full,  and  everlasting  for- 
Job.  17.  8.  giveness  of  all  wrongs,  injuries,  and  of- 
14.  fences  done  by  them  against  my  Father, 

^2  Pet  1.  4.  me,  their  neighbour,  or  themseJves. 
2  Cor.  7. 1.       "  Secondly,  I  do  give  them  the  holy 
Uofel.16.  law,  and  my   testament,   with  all  that 
therein  is  contained,  for  their  everlast- 
ing comfort  and  consolation. 

"Thirdly,  I  do  also  give  them  a  portion  of  the 
self  same  grace  and  goodness  that  dwells  in  my 
Father's  heart  and  mine. 

"Fourthly,   I  do  give,  grant,  and  bestow  tipoa 

them  freely,  the  world,  and  what  is  there* 

1    Cer.  3.  in,  for  their  good  !  and  they  shall  have 

31,  22>        that  power  over  them,  as   shall  standi 

with  the  honour  ef  my  Father,  my  glorjs 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  ljtg 

afiil  their  comfort:  yea,  I  grant  them  the  benefits  of 
life  and  death,  and  of  things  present  and  of  things 
to  come,  This  privilege  no  other  city,  town  or  cor- 
poration shall  have,  hut  my  Mansoul  only. 

"  Fifthly,  I  do  give  and  grant  them  Hcb.  10. 
leave  and  free  access  to  me  in  my   pal-  19,  20. 
ace,  at  all  seasons  (to  my   palace  above  Mat.  7.  7, 
•r  below)   there   to  make    known   their 
wants  to  me;  and  I  give  them,  moreover,  a  promise 
0iat  I  will  hear  and  redress  all  their  grievances. 

"  Sixthly,  1  do  give,  grant  to,  and  in- 
vest the  town  of  Mansoul  with  full  pow-  No  man  ts 
er  and  authority,  to  seek  out,  take,  en-  die  for  kill- 
shve,  and  destroy  all,  and  ali  manner  o[  ing  of  sins. 
Diabolians,  that  at  any  time, from  whence 
toever,  shall  be  found  straggling,  in  or  about  the 
lown  of  Mansoul. 

u  Seventhly,  I  do  further  grant  to  No  lust  has 
my  beloved  town  of  Mansoul,  that  they  any  grant 
kave  authority,  not  to  suffer  any  for-  by  Christy 
signer,  or  stranger,  or  their  seed,  to  or  any  lib- 
he  free  in  and  of  the  blessed  town  of  erty  to  act 
Mansoul,  nor  to  share  in  the  excellent  in  the  town 
privileges    thereof.      But   that   all    the  cfMansouL 

frants,  privileges  and   immunities,  that 
bestow  upon  the  famous  town  of  Man-  Eph.  4.  22. 
fool,  hhdil   be  for  those  the  old  natives  Cor.    3.    b. 
and  true  inhabitants  thereof;  to  them,  to  9. 
I  say,  and  to  their  seed  *fter  them. 

"  But  ail  Diabolians  of  what  sort,  birth,  country  or 
kingdom  soever,  sh  \i\  be  debarred  a  share  therein." 

So  when   the   town  of  Mansoul  had  received,  at 
the    hand   of    Emmanuel,    their   grack.us   charter, 
-wnich,  in  itself  is  infinitely  more  large  than  by  this 
le.in    epitome  is   set    before  you,    they 
Darned  it  to  audience,   that  is,  to  the  2  Cor.  3.  S. 
mirket-place,    and   there  Mr.  Recorder  Jei\  3 L  33, 
read  it  in  the  presence  of  all  the  people.  Hcb.  3.  i0. 
Tins  being  done,  it  was  had  back  to  the 
castle  gates,  and   there  fairly    engraven  The    char 
upon  the  <^oors  thereof,  and  laid  in  letters  ter  set   up 
«f  gold,  to  the  end  that  the  town  of  Man-  m       tfmr 


itid  mm  H©LY  WAR. 

eastlc-gate.  soul,  with  all  the  people  thereof,  might 
have  it  always  in  their  view,  or  mis;ht 
go  where  they  might  gee  what  a  blessed  freedom 
their  Prince  had  bestowed  upon  them,  that  their  joy 
might  be  increased  in  themselves,  and  their  love 
renewed  to  their  great  and  good  Emmanuel. 

But   what  joy!   what  comfort, !  what  consolation, 
think   you,  did  now   possess  the   hearts 
Jry  renew-  ef   the  men  of  Mansoul ;  the  bells  ring- 
ed  in  Man-  ed,    the   minstrels    played,   the    people 
scut.  danced,   the  captains  shouted,  the   col- 

ours waved  in  the  wind,  and  the  silver 
trumpets  sounded,  and  the  Diaholians  now  were 
glad  to  hide  their  heads,  for  they  looked  like  them 
that  had  been  long  dead. 

When  all  this  was  over,  the  Prince  sent  again  for 
the  elders  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  communed 
with  them  about  a  ministry  that  he  intended  to  es- 
tablish among  them;  such  a  ministry  that  might 
©  en  unto  them,  and  that  might  instruct  them  in  the 
things  that  did  concern  their  present  and  future  state. 
For,  said  he,  yon  of  yourselves,  with- 
er. 10-  23.  out  you  have  teachers  and  guides,  will 
1  Cor,  2.  14.  not  be  able  to  know,  and  if  not  to  know, 
to  be  sure,  not  to  do  the  will  of  my 
Father. 

At  this  news,  when  the  elders  of 
The  C&m-  Mansoul  brought  it  to  the  people,  the 
■man  good  whole  town  came  running  together 
'thoughts.  (for  it  pleased  them  very  well,  as  what- 
ever the  Prince  now  did  pleased  the 
people)  and  all,  with  one  consent,  implored  his  ma- 
jesty, that  lie  would  forthwith  establish  such  a  min- 
istry among  them,  as  might  teach  them  both  law 
and  judgment,  statue  and  commandment ;  that 
ttiey  might  be  documented  in  all  good  and  whole- 
some things.  So  he  told  them,  that  he  would  grant 
them  their  requests,  and  should  establish  two  among 
them :  one  that  was  of  his  Father's  court,  and  one 
that  was  a  native  of  Mansoul. 

He  that  is  from   the  court,  said  he,  is  a  person  of 
»e  k»s  qualify  aad  digmty  than  is  my  Father  and  1  \ 


TOE  HOLY  WAR.  161 

and  he  is  the   Lord  chief  Secretary  of  2  Pet.  1.21, 
my  Father's  house;  for  he  is,  and  always  1  Cor.  2. 
has  l>een,  the  chief  dictator  of  a!I  my  Fa-   10. 
ther's  laws,  a  person  altogether  w*f!  skil-  Jo/i/e    1.  I. 
led  in   al!    mysteries,  and  knowledge  of  1   Jo.  5.  7. 
mvsteries,  as  is  my  Father,  or  as  myself 
is.     Indeed  he  is  one  with   us  in  nature,  and  also  'S 
tooving  of,  and   being  faithfu   to,  and  in  the  et   - 
nal  concerns  of  the  town  of  alansoul. 

And  this  is  he,  said  the  Prince,  that  m Mat  he  your 
chief  teacher;  for   'tis  he,  and  only    he,  that  can 
teach    you   clearly   in    all    high    and  supernatural 
things.     He,  and  he  only  it  is,  that  knows  the  ways 
and  methods  of  my  Father  at   court,   nor  can  any 
like   him  shew  how  the  heart  of  my  Father  is  at  all 
times,  in  all  things,   and  upon  all  occasions,  towards 
Mansoul ;    for   as    no   man    knows  the 
things  of  man,    but  that   spirit  of  man  Jo.  14    26; 
which  is  in  him,  so  the  things  of  my  Fa-  Ch.  16.  13. 
ther    knows  no  man,    but    this   his  high   1  Jo.  2.  27. 
and  mighty  secretary.     Nor  can  any,  as 
he,  tell    Mansoul    how    and   what    they   shall  do  to 
keep  themselves  in  the  love  of  my  Father.     He  also 
it  is  that  can  bring  lost  things  to  your  remembrance, 
and  that  can  tell  you  things  to  come.     This  teacher 
therefore  must  of  necessity,  have  the  pre-eminence, 
both  in   your  affections  and  judgment,  before  jrour 
other  teacher ;  his  personal    dignity,   the  excellen- 
cy of  his  teaching,    aUo  the  great   dexterity  that  he 
hath,  to  help  you  to  make  and   draw  up  petitions  to 
my    Father  for    your    help,  and    to  his 
pleasing,  must   lay  obligations  upon  you   1  Thes.  tl 
to  love  him,  fear  him,  and  to  take  heed  5.  (3. 
that  you  grieve  him  not. 

This  person  can   put  life  and    vigour  Acts  21. 
in^o  all  he  says;  yea,  and   can  also  put  10,  11. 
it  into  your   heart.       This  person   can  Jud.  5.  2S§ 
mke  seers  of  you,  and   can   make  you  Eph.  6.  £?. 
tell  what   shall   be    hereafter.     By  this  Rum.  &, 
person  you  must  fr  me  all  your  petitions  26. 
to  my  Father  and  me ;  and  without  his 
14  * 


Jf$|  *&HE  HOLY  WATU 

advice  and  counsel  first  obtained,  let  nothing  enter 
info  the  town  or  castle  of  Mansoul,  for  that  may  dis- 
gust and  grieve  this  noble  person. 

Take  heed,  I  say,  that  you  do  not  grieve  this  mi- 
Bister,  for  if  you  do,  he  may  fight  against  you;  and 
jn       n     7    srKMJid  ne  once  be  moved  by  you  to  set 
11    17*  20    n*msetf  8£amst  tnee  *n  battle  array,  that 
E  h  4' 30    w**'   ^stress   you   more  than  if  twelve 
L      63*10*  *e§*ons  snou^,   from  my  Father's  court, 
be  sent  to  make  war  upon  you. 
But,  as  I  said,  if  you  shall  hearken  unto  him,  an4 
love  him ;  if  you  shall  devote  yourself  to  his  reach- 
ing, and  shall  seek  to  have  converse,  and  to  main- 
tain communion  with  him,  you  shall  find  him  tea 
times  better  than  is  the  whole  world  to 
I  Or.    13.  any  ;  yea,  he  will  shed  abroad  the  love 
14.  of  ray  Father  in  your  hearts,  and  Man- 

Hom.  5.  5,  soul  will  be  the  wisest  and  most  blessed 

of  all  people. 
Conscience        Then  did  the   Prince  call  unto  hint 
made       a    the  old  gentleman,  who  afore    had  been 
minuter*       the    recorder   of   Mansoul     Mr.     Con- 
science by  name,  and  told  him,  that  for 
us  much  as  he  was  well  skilled  in  the  law  and  go- 
vernment of   the  town   of  Mansoul,  and    was   als© 
TYell  spoken,  and  could    pertinently  deliver  to  them 
Ilia  master's  will,  in  all   terrene  and  domestic  mat- 
ters, therefore  he  would  also  make  him 
His  limits,   a  minister  for,  and  in  the  goodly  town 
of  Mansoul.  in  all  the  laws,  statues,  and 
Judgments  of  the   famous  town  of  Mansoul.     And 
thou  must,  said  the  Prince,   confine   thyself  to  the 
teaching  of  moral    virtues,   and  civil  and    natural 
duties ;  but    thou    must   not  attempt   to 
His    can-     presume  to  be  a  revealer  of  those   high 
tion.  and  supernatural  mysteries  that  are  kept 

fclesein  the  bosom  of  Shaddai  rny  Fath- 
er: For  those  things  know  n©  man,  nor  can  any  re- 
Teal  them  but  my  Father's  secretary  only. 

Thou  art  a  native  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  but 
tlie  Lord  Secretary  is  a  native  with  my  Father  y 
^rberefore  as  ttarn  hast  koewledge  ef  the  laws  aa4 


$liE  HOLY  W^AR.  l€g 

customs  of  the  corporation,  so  he,  of  the  things  and 
will  of  my  Father. 

Wherefore,  oh  !  Mr.  Conscience,  although  I  have 
made  thee  a  minister,  and  a  preacher  to  the  town  of 
Mansoul,  yet  as  to  the  things  which  the  Lerd  Sec- 
retary knoweth,  and  shall  teach  his  people,  there 
thou  must  be  his  scholar,  and  a  learner,  even  as  the 
rest  of  Mansoul  are. 

Thou  must  therefore,  in  all  high  and  supernatu> 
fal  things  go  to  him  for  information  and 
knowledge ;  for  though  there  be  a  spirit  Job.  33.  8* 
in  man,  this  person's  inspiration  must 
give  him  understanding.  Wherefore,  oh  !  thou  Mr, 
Recorder,  keep  low  and  humble,  and  remember  that 
the  Biabolians  that  kept  not  their  first  charge,  but 
left  their  own  standing,  are  row  made  prisoners  in 
the  pit ;  be  then  content  with  thy   station. 

I  have  made  thee  my  Father's  vicegerent  on  earth9 
in  such  things,  of  which  I  have  made 
mention  before:  Mid  thou,  take  thou  His  power 
power  to  teach  them  to  Mansoul :  yea  m  Mansoul 
and  to  impose  them  with  whips  and  chas- 
tisements, if  they  shall  not  willingly  hearken  to  d© 
thy  commandments. 

And,  Mr.    Recorder,  because   thou  art  old,  and 
through  many  abuses,  m;ide  feeble;  there- 
fore I  give  thee  leave  and  licence  to  go  His  liberty. 
when  thou  wilt  to  my  fountain,  my  con- 
duit, and  there  to  driuk  freely  of  in*"  blood  Body, 
of  my  grape,  for  my  conduit  doth  always  Heb.  9.  14 
run  wine.     Thus  doing,  thou  shait  drive 
from  thy  heart  and  stomach,  all  foul,  gross,  and  hurt- 
ful humours.     It  will  also  lighten  thine  eyes,  and  w  ill 
strengthen  thy  memory  for  the  reception  and   keep- 
ing of  all   that  the   King's  most  noble   Secretary 
teacheth. 

When  the  Prince  had  thus  put  Mr.  Record*  r  (that 
•nee  so  was)  into  the  place  and  office  of  a  mins  ep 
to  Mansoul,  and  the  man  had  thankfully  acce  -ted 
thereof;  then  did  Emmanuel  address  himself  in  j 
particular  speech  to  the  townsmen  themselves* 
*  .Behold  (said  the  f  riae«  to  Mansoul) 


1#|  TOE  HOLY  WAtt. 

Th* prince's  my  love  and  can r  towards  you,  T  haVe 
spe-ch  to  adiUv  to  a!i  that  is  past,  this  mercy  to 
Mansoul.      appoint  you  preachers;  the  most  noble 

Secretary  to  tench  you  in  all  high  and 
sii-  lime  mysteries;  and  this  gentleman,  pointing  to 
Mr!  Conscience,  is  to  teach  you  in  all  things  human 
and  domestic,  for  therein  lieth  his  work.  He  is  not, 
by  what  1  have  said,  debarred  of  telling  to  Mansoul 
any  thing  that  he  hath  heard  and  received  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Lord  high  Secretary  ;  only  he  ishall 
not  attempt  to  presume  to  pretend  to  be  a  revealer 
of  those  high  mysteries  himself;  for  the  breaking  of 
ihem  up,  and  the  discovery  of  them  to  Mansoul,  li- 
«th  only  in  the  power,  authority,  and  skill  of  the 
Lord  high  Secretary  hims  If.     Talk  of  them  he  may, 

and  so  may  the  rest  of  the  town  of  Man- 
J  license  to  soul;  yea,  and  may,  as  occasion  gives 
MansouL      them    opportunity,   press  them  on  each 

other,  for  the  benefit  of  the  whole.  These 
things  therefore  I  would  have  you  to  observe  and  do* 
for  it  is  lor  your  life,  and  the  lengthening  of  your  days. 
"  And  one  thing  more  to  my  beloved  Mr.  Record- 
er, and  to   all   the  town  of  Mansoul;  you  must  not 

dwell  in,  nor  stay  upon  any  thing  of  that 
A  world  to  which  he  hath  in  commission  to  teach 
tome p  om~  you,  as  to  your  trust  and  expectation  of 
ised  to  the  next  world  ;  of  the  next  world  I  say, 
Mansoul.      for  1  purpose  to  give  another  to  Mansoul, 

when  this  with  them  is  worn  out,  hut 
that  you  must  wholly  and  solely  have  recourse  to, 
and  make  stay  u:-on  his  doctrine,  that  is  your  teach- 
er after  the  first  order :  Yea,  Mr.  Recorder  himself 
must  not  look  for  life  from  that  which  he  himself  re- 
vealeth,  his  dependence  for  that  must  be  founded  in 
the  doctrine  of  the  other  preacher.  Let  Mr.  Recor- 
der also  take  heed,  that  he  receive  not  any  doctrine, 
©r  point  of  doctrine,  that  is  not  communicated  t© 
him  by  his  superior  teacher,  not  yet  within  the  pre- 
cincts of  his  own  formal  knowledge. 

Now   after  the  Prince  had  thus  settled  things  ia 

the  famous  town  of  Mansoul,  he  pro- 
$c      gives  ceeded  to  give  to  the  elders  ef  the  cer- 


«H£  HOLY  WAR.  16* 

paction  a  neeessary  caution,  to  wit,  he\V  them    cau- 
they  should  carry  it  to  the  high  and  no-  tien     about 
ble  captains  that  he  had,  from  his  Fath*  the  captains 
er's  court,  sent. or  hrought   with   him  t€> 
the  famous  town  of  Mansoul. 

"  These  captains,  said  he,   do   love  the   town  of 
Mansoul,  and  they  are  pick'd  men,  pick'd 
©ut  of  abundance,  as  men  that  best  suit,  Graces 
and  that  will  most  faithfully  serve  in  the  pick'd  from 
fears  of   Shaddai  against  the  Diabolians  common 
for  the  preservation  of  the  town  of  Man-  virtues. 
soul.     I   charge  you,  therefore,  said  he, 
O  ye  inhabitants  of  the  now  flourishing  town  of  Man- 
soul, that  you  carry  it  not   ruggedly  or  untowardij 
to  my  captains,  or  their  men ;  since,  as  I  said,  they 
are  pick'd   and   choice  men,  men  choseu  out  of  ma- 
bv,  for  the  good  »f  the  town   of  Mansoul.     I   say,  I 
charge  you  thnt  you  carry  it  not  untowardly  to  them; 
for  though  they  have  the  hearts   and   faces  of  lions, 
when  at  any  time  they    shall   be  called 
f«>  th  to  engage  and  fight  with  the  King's  Satan  can* 
fits,  and  the  enemies  of  the  town  of  Man-  not  iveaktn 
soul;  yet  a  little  discountenance  cast  up-  oar  grace* 
en  them  from  the  town  of  Mansoul,  will  as  we  eur- 
deject  and   cast  down   their  faces,  will  selves  may* 
weaken  and    take   away   their  courage. 
Do  not,  therefore,  oh  my  beloved,  carry  it  unkindljr 
to  my  valiant  captains,   and  courageous 
men  of  war,  but  love  them,  nourish  them,  Words* 

succour  them,  and  lay   them  to  your  bo- 
soms, and  they  will  not  only  fight  for  you,  but  cause 
to  fly   from  you  all  those  Diabolians  that  seek,  and 
will,  if  possible,  be  your  utter  destruction. 

"  If  therefor*  any  of  them  should,  at  any  time,  he 
sick  or  weak,  and  so  not  able  (o  perform  that  office 
of  love,  which,  with  all  their  hearts,  they  are  willing 
to  do,  and  will  do  dso,  when  well  and  in  health, 
slight  them  not,  nor  despise  them,  but 
nther  strengthen  them,  and  encourage  Heb.12.Wf 
them,  though  weak  and  ready  to  die;  for  Isa.  35.  3* 
th  v  -re  your  fe  iee  in  'your  guard.  Rev.  3  2. 
your   walls,  your  gates,  your  locks,  and  1    Tlies.  $, 


46C  ^ME  HOLY  WAR. 

14.  your  bars.     And  although  when    they* 

are  weak  they  can  do  but  little,  but 
rather  need  to  be  helped  by  you  than  that  you  should 
then  expect  great  things  from  them  ;  yet,  when  well,, 
you  know  what  exploits,  what  feats,  and  warlike 
achievements  they  are  able  to  do,  and  will  perform 
for  you. 

"  Besides,  i"  they  are  weak,  the  town  of  Mansoul 
eannot  be  strong  ;  if  they  be  strong,  then  Mansoul 
cannot  be  weak;  your  safety  doth  therefore  lie  ia 
their  health  and  in  your  countenancing  of  them, 
Rcmemher  also,  that  if  they  be  sick,  they  catch 
that  disease  of  the  town  of  Mansoul  itself. 

"  These  things  have  I  said  unto  you,  because  I 
love  your  welfare  and  your  honour  ;  observe  there- 
fore, oh  my  Mansoul,  to  be  punctual  in  all  thing! 
that  I  have  given  in  charge  unto  you,  and  that  not 
only  as  a  town  corporate,  and  so  to  your  officers  and 
guard,  and  guides  in  chief,  but  to  you,  as  you  are  a 
people  whose  well  being,  as  single  persons,  depend* 
on  the  observation  of  the  orders  and  commandments 
of  iJieir  Lord. 

"  Next,  eh  my  Mansoul  1     I  do  warn  you  of  that, 

of  which  (notwithstanding  the  reforraa- 
A  caution  tion  that  at  present  is  wrought  among 
about  the  you)  you  have  need  to  be  warned  about: 
Diabolians  wherefore  hearken  diligently  unto  me. 
that  yet  re-  I  am  now  sure,  and  you  shall  know  here* 
main  in  after,  that  there  are  yet  of  the  Diaboli- 
Mansoul.      ans  remaining  in  the   town  of  Mansoul  4 

Diabolians  that  are  sturdy  and  implaca- 
ble, and  do  already  while  I  am  with  you,  and  that 
will  yet  more  when  I  am  from  you  study,  plot,  con- 
trive, invent,  and  jointly  attempt  to  bring  you  to 
desolation,  and  so  to  a  state  far  worse  than  that  of 
the  Egyptian  bondage  ;  they  are  the  avowed  friends 

of  Diabolus,  therefore  look  about  you  : 
Mark  7.  they  used  heretofore  to  lodge  with  their 
11,  22.         Prince    in  the  castle,  when  Incredulity 

was  the  lord  mayor  of  this  town ;  but 
Rom.  7.  18  since  my  coming  thither,  they  lie  inore 
§hmt         i«  the  euteidea  and  walls,  and  have  m^e- 


#ff«  HOLY  WAR.  16> 

Utemselves  de ns,  and  caves,  and  holes,  would  not 
and  strong  holds  therein.  Wherefore,  O  have  us 
Mansoui !  thy  work,  as   to  this,  will  be  (kstr&y 

so  much  the  more  difficult  and  hard;  ourselves 
that  is,  to  take,  mortify,  and  put  them  to  thereby  ts 
death,  according  to  the  will  of  my  Fath-  destroy  our 
er.  Nor  can  you  utterly  rid  yourselves  sins. 
of  them,  unless  you  should  pull  down 
the  walls  of  your  town,  the  which  I  am  by  no  meant 
willing  you  should.  Do  you  ask  me  what  shall  we 
do  then  ?  Why  be  you  diligent,  and  quit  you  like 
men,  observe  their  holes,  find  out  their  haunts,  as- 
sault them,  and  make  no  peace  v\ith  them.  Wher- 
ever they  haunt,  lurk  or  abide,  and  what  terms  of 
peace  soever  they  offer  you,  abhor,  aad  all  shall  be 
well  betwixt  you  and  me.  And  that  yon  may  the 
better  know  them  from  those  that  are  Ihe  natives  of 
Mansoui,  I  will  give  you  this  brief  schedule  of  the 
names  of  the  chief  ©f  them ;  and  they 
are  these  that  follow  :  the  lord  Fornica-  The  names 
tion,  the  lord  Adultery,  the  lord  Murder,  of  some  Di- 
the  lord  Anger,  the  lord  Lasciviousness,  aholians  in 
the  lord  Deceit,  the  lord  Evileye,  Mr.  Mansoui. 
Drunkenness,  Mr.  Revelling,  Mr.  Idola- 
try, Mr.  Witchcraft,  Mr.  Variance,  Mr.  Emulation, 
Mr.  Wrath,  Mr.  Strife,  Mr.  Sedition,  and  Mr.  Here- 
sy. These  are  some  of  the  chief,  0  Mansoui  !  of 
those  that  will  seek  to  overthrow  thee  forever: 
Those  I  say  are  the  skulkers  in  Mansoui,  but  look 
thou  well  into  the  law  of  thy  King,  and  there  tho« 
ahalt  find  their  physiognomy,  and  such  other  charac- 
teristical  notes  of  them,  by  which  they  certainly  may 
be  knows. 

*  These,  O  my  Mansoui,  and  I  would  gladly  that 
you  should  certainly  know  it)  if  they  be  suffered  t# 
Bun  and  range  about  the  town  as  they  would,  will 
quickly,  like  vipers,  eat  out  your  bowels,  yea,  poi- 
son your  captains,  cut  the  sinews  of  your  soldiers, 
break  the  bars  and  bolts  of  your  gates,  and  turn  your 
now  most  flourishing  Mansoui  into  a  barren  and  des- 
olate wilderness,  and  ruinous  heap.  Wherefore 
*at  yen  iaay  take  courage  to  yourselves  to  appre- 


168  WHS  HOLY  WATt. 

A  commls-  hend  these  villains  wherever  yon  fmi 
*icw  Jo  </f-  them,  I  give  you,  my  lord  M  y  r.  my 
Mrey  the  lord  Willhewill,  and  Mr.  Recorder  \;  i 
Diabolians  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  M  t- 
^?  Mansoul.  full    power  and  commission  to  s^ek  o  »t, 

to  take,  and  cause  to  be  put  to  death,  f 
the  cross,  all,  and  all  manner  of  Diahotians,  whe£ 
and  wherever  you  shall  find  them  to  lurk  within,  or 
to  range  without  the  walls  of  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

"  I  told  you  before,  that  I  had  placed  a  standing 
Ministry  among  you,  nor  that  you  have  but  these 
w  th  you,  for  my  four  first  captains,  who  came  a- 
gainst  the  master  and  lord  of  the  Diabolians  that  w:>g 

in  Mansoul,  they  can  not  only  privately 
Preachers  inform,  but  publicly  preach  to  the  cor- 
if  need  be  poration  both  good  and  wholesome  doc- 
for  Man-  trine,  and  such  as  shall  lead  you  in  the 
soul.  way;  yea,  they  will  set  up   a    weekly, 

yea,  if  need  be,  a  daily  lecture  in  thee, 
oh  Mansoul  !  and  will  instruct  thee  in  each  profita- 
ble lessons,  that,  if  heeded,  will  do  the^  good  at  the 
«nd.  And  take  good  heed  that  you  spare  not  the 
men  that  you  have  a  commission  to  fake  and  erucifyl 
"  Now  as  I  have  set  out  before  your  eyes  the  va- 
grants and   runagates  by  name,  so    1   will  tell  you 

that  among  yourselves,  some  of  them 
A  caution,    shall  creep  in  to  beguile  you,  even  sucti 

as  would  seem,  and  that  in  appearance 
are  very  ripe  and  hot  for  religion.  And  they,  if  you 
watch  not,  will  do  you  a  mischief,  such  an  one  as  at 
present  you  cannot  think  of. 

"These,  as  1  said,  will  shew  themselves  to  yon 
in  another  hue  than  those  under  the  description  }  - 
fore.  Wherefore  Mansoul,  watch  and  be  sooer,  and 
surfer  not  thyself  to  be  betrayed." 

When  the  Prince  had  thus  far  new  modelled  *H 
town  of  Mansoul,  and  had  instructed  tn^m  in  s  i 
setters  ;!S  were  profitable  for  them  to  knou  ;  *h^a 
ke   appointed  another  <\dy>   in.  which    he  in)end*.'lf 

whm  the  townsfolk  'Catne  together,  « 
Another  hcBf'»w  ••  r  aV^pt  '^adsce  of  honour  upo* 
pttVilt^e       Ui«    i#v\«»    *f   Mansoul  $    a   &&dae    tnat 


*H«  HOLY  WAR.  J  69 

should   distinguish    them   from  all   the  for  Mart" 
people,  kindred  and  tongues,  that  dwell  sold. 
in  the  kingdom  of  Universe.     Now  it 
was   not  long  before  the  day  appointed  was  come; 
and  the  Prince  and  his  people  met  in  the  King's  pal- 
ace, where  first  Emmanuel  made  a  short  speech  un- 
to them,  and  then  did  for  them  as  he  had  said,  uni© 
them  as  he  had  promised. 

"  My  Mansoul,  (said  he)  that  which  I  now  am  a- 
feout  to  do,  is  to  make  you  known  to  the 
world  to  be  mine  ;  and  io  d'»s tin guiah  you  His  speech 
also  in  your  own  eyes,  from  all  false  trai-  to  Manseuh 
tors  that  may  creep  in  among  you." 

Then  he  commanded  thai  those  who  waited  upaa 
loam  should  go  and  bring  forth,  out  of  his  treasury, 
those  white  and  glittering  robes  that  I, 
said  he,  have  provided  and  laid  up  in  White  robes 
•tore  for  my  Mansoul.  So  the  white  Rev,  19.  8. 
garments  were  fetched  out  of  his  treasu- 
ry, and  laid  forth  to  the  eyes  of  the  people.  More- 
over it  was  granted  to  them,  that  they  should  take 
them  and  put  them  on  according,  said  he,  to  your 
size  and  stature.  So  the  people  were  put  into  wnite, 
into  fine  linen,  white  and  clean. 

Then  said  the  Prince  unto  them,  "  This,  O  Man- 
soul, is  my  livery,  and  the  badge  by  which  mine  are 
known  from  the  servants  of  others.  Yea,  it  13  that 
which  I  grant  to  all  that  are  mine,  and  without 
whieh  no  man  is  permitted  to  see  my  face.  Wear 
them  therefore  for  my  sake  who  gave  them  unto 
you,  and  also  if  you  would  be  known  by  the  world 
Io  he  mine." 

But  how  can  you  think  how  Mansoul  shone  :  It 
was  fair  as  the  sun,  clear  as  the  moon,  and  terrible 
as  an  army  with  banners. 

The  Prince  added  further,  and  said,  Thai  which 
",No  priuce,  potentate,  or  mighty  one  distinguish 
of  Universe,  giveth  this  liberty  but  my-  eth  Manr 
self:  behold  therefore,  as  I  said  before,  soul  from 
you  shall  be  known  by  it  to  be  mine.        ether  people 

"  And  now,  said  he,  I  have  given  you 
my  Hvery,  let  me  give  you  also  in  commaudmedl 
i5 


17d  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

concerning  them ;  and  be  sure  that  you  take  good 
ieed  to  ray  words. 

"  First,  Wear  them  daily,  day  by  day, 
Eccl.  9.  8.    lest  you  should,  at  some  times,  appea 

to  others  as  if  you  were  none  of  mine. 
F*cv.  3.  2.         "  Secondly,  Keep  them  always  whit 

for  if  they  be  soiled,  'tis  dishonour  to 
"Thirdly,    Wherefore   gird   them    up    from    tfc 
ground,  and  let  them  not  clog  with  dust  and  dirt. 

"Fourthly,  Take  heed  that   you   lose    them 
lest  you  walk  naked  and  they  see  your  shame. 

"  Fifthly,  But   if  you   should   sully  them,  if  yc 
should  defile  them,  the  which   I   am  greatly   unwi 

ling  you  should,  and  the  prince  Diahi 
Rev.  7.  15.  lus  will  be  glad  if  you  would,  then  spec 
16.  17.  you  to  do  that  which   is   written  in 

law,  that  yet  you  may  stand  and  not  fa 
kefore  me  and  my  throne.     Also,  this  is  the  way 

eause  that  I  may  not  leave  you  nor  fo 
Luke  21.      sake  you  while  here,  but  may  dwell  in  tl 

town  of  Mansoul  forever." 

And  now  was  Mansoul,  and  the  inhabitants  of 

as   the  signet  upon  Emmanuel's   right  hand  ;  wher 

was  there  now  a  town,  a  city,  a   corporation,  that 

eould  compare    with  Mansoul  ?    a  town   redeemed 

from  the  hand  and  from  the  power  of 
The  glori-  Biabolus!  a  town  that  the  King  Shad* 
otis  state  of  dai  loved,  and  that  he  sent  Emmanuel 
Mansoul.      to  regain  from  the  prince  of  the  infernal 

cave  :  yea,  a  town  that  Emmanuel  lov- 
ed to  dwell  in,  and  that  he  chose  for  his  royal  habi- 
tation :  a  town  that  he  fortified  for  himself,  and 
made  strong  by  the  force  of  his  army.  What  shall 
I  say,  Mansoul  has  now  a  most  Excellent  Prince, 
golden  captains  and  men  of  war,  weapons  proved, 
and  garments  as  white  as  snow  :  nor  are  these  ben- 
efits to  be  counted  little  but  great ;  and  can  the 
town  of  Mansoul  esteem  them  so,  and  improve  them 
to  that  end  and  purpose  for  which  they  are  bestowed 
upou  them. 

When  the  Prince  had  thus  completed  the  model- 
ing .of  the  town,  to  skew  that  he  had  great  delight 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  171 

in  the  works  of  his  hands,  and  took  pleasure  in  the 
good  that  he  had  wrought,  for  the  famous  and  flour- 
ishing town  of  Mansoul,  he  commanded,  and  they 
set  his  standard  upon  the  battlements  of  the  castle. 
And  then, 

First,  He  gave  them  frequent  visits,  not  a  day 
now   but  the   eiders  of   Mansoul   must 
come  to  him,  or  he  to  them,  into  his  pal-  2  Corhu  G, 
ace.     Now  they  must  walk  and  talk  to-  16. 
gether  of  all  the  great  things  that  he  had 
done;  and  yet  further   promised  to  do  for  the  town 
i,f  Mansoul.     This  would  tie  often  do  with  the  lord 
mayor,   my   lord    Willbewill,   and    the 
honest  subordinate  preacher  Mr.  Con-  Under- 
jcience,  and   Mr.    Recorder.     But  oh!  standing 
how    graciously !    how    lovingly !    how  the  will. 
courteously  !  and  tenderly  did  this  bles- 
sed Prince  now  carry  it   towards  the  town  of  Man* 
loul  !  in  all  the  streets,  gardens,  orchards,  and  other 
places  where  he  came,   to  be  sure  the  poor  should 
have  his  blessing  and  benediction  ;  yea, 
he  would  kiss  the^,  and  if  they  were  ill     Hungry 
he  would   lay   hands  on  them  and  make     thoughts. 
them  well.     The  captains  also  he  would 
daily,  yea,   sometimes   hourly,   encourage  with  his 
presence  and  goodly  words.     For  you    must  know 
that   a  smile  from  hiffl  upon  them,  would  put   more 
vigour,  life  and  stoutness  into  them,  than  any  thing 
under  heaven. 

The    Prince   would    now   also  feast 
them,  and  be  with   them  continually ;  1  Corin.  5. 
hardly  a  week  would  pas3,   but   a  ban-  8. 
quet  must  be  held  betwixt  him  and  them. 
You  may  remember  that  some  pages  before  we  made 
mention  of  one   fe;isl  that   they  had  together,    but 
n  >vv  to  feast   them    with  a  thing  more 
cortmoa  every  day   with   Mansoul  was  A  token  of 
a  feust  day  now.  Nor  did  he,  when  they  Mdmiage. 
relumed    to    their    places,    send    them  A  token  of 
em^ty  away  ;  either  they  must  have  a  honour. 
ring,  a  gold  chain,  a   bracelet,  a  wlrte   A  U;  en  of 
atone*  W  something;  so  dear  was  i*iaa-  diauty* 


X12  THE  H0LY  WAR. 

A  token  &f  soul  to  him  now ;  so  lovely  was  Maaa- 
pardon.         soul  in  his  eyes. 

Secondly,  When  (he  elders  and  towns- 
men did  not  come  to  him,  he  would  send  in  mueh 
plenty  of  provision  unto  them;  meat  that  came  from 
court,  wine  and  bread  that  were  prepared  for  his 
Father's  table;  yea,  such  delicates  would  he  send 
unto  them,  and  therewith  would  so  cover  their  ta- 
ble, that  whoever  saw  it,  confessed  that  the  like 
could  not  be  seen  in  any  kingdom. 

Thirdly,   If  Mansoul  did  not  frequently  visit  him 

as  he  desired  they  should,  he  would 
The  danger  walk  out  to  them,  knock  at  their  doors, 
ef  wander-  and  desire  entrance,  that  amity  might 
ingtho'ts.  be  maintained  betwixt  them  and  him  £ 
Rev.  3.  20.  if  they  did  hear  and  open  to  him,  as 
Cant.  b.  2.   commonly  they  would,  if  they  were  at 

home,  then  would  he  renew  his  former 
love,  and  confirm  it  too,  with  some  new  tokens  and 
signs  of  continual  favour. 

And  was  it  not  now  amazing  to  behold,  that  ia 
that  very  place  where  sometimes  Diabolus  had  his 
abode,  and  entertained  his  Diabolians  to  the  almost 
utter  destruction  of  Mansoul,  the  Prince  of  princes 
should  sit  eating  and  drinking  with  them,  while 
til  his  mighty  captains  and  men  of  war,  trumpet- 
ers, with   the  singing  men  and  singing  women  of 

his  Father,  stood  round  about  to  wait 
Mansoul^  upon  them.  Now  did  Mansoul's  cup 
gtery*  run  over,    uow   did    her   conduits  run 

sweet  wine,  now  did  she  eat  the  finest 
of  the  wheat,  and  drink  milk  and  honey  out  of  the 
*ock :  now  she  said,  how  great  is  his  goodness  !  for 
since  I  found  favour  in  his  eyes,  how  honourable 
have  I  been  I 

The  blessed  Printe  did  also  ordain  a  new  officer 

in  the  town,  and  a  goodly  person  he 
Gol.  3.  1*.    was,  his  name    was    Mr.   Godspeace; 

this  man  was  set  over  my  lord  Willbe- 
wiil,  ray  lord  Mayor,  Mr.  Recorder,  the  subordinate 
preacher,  Mr.  Mind,  and  over  all  the  natives  of  the 
f&wa  of  Mansoul.     Himself  was  not  a  native  of  it 


*    THE  HOLY  WAR.  173 

hut    came    with    the  Prince  Emmanuel 
from    the  court.     He  was  a  great   ac-     Rom.    15. 
qu  mtance   of  Captain    Credence    and     13. 
tap  tain  Goodhope  ;  some  say  they  were 
10n.  and  I  am  of  that  opinion  too.     This  man,  as  I 
si'd,    was  made  governour  of  the  town  in  general, 
especially  over  the  castle,  and  captain   Credence 
was  to  help  him  there.     And  I   made  great  ohser- 
rations  of  it,   th  t  so  long   as   all  things   went  in 
Mansoul,  as  this  sweefcnatured  gentleman  would, 
the  town  was  in   a   must  happy  condition.     Now 
there  were  no  j  -rs,  no  chiding,   no  interfering,  no 
unfaithful  doings  in  all  the   town  of  Mansoul;  eve- 
ry man  in  Mansoul  keep  close   to   his  own  employ- 
ment     The  gentry,  the  officers,  the  sol- 
diers, and  all   in   place    observed  their  Holy     corf- 
order.     And  as  for  the  women  and  i>hil-  ceptions. 
dren  of  the  town,  they  followed  their  Good 
business  joyfully,  they  would  work  and  thoughts. 
sing  from  morning   till   niaht;   so   that 
quite    through   the  town  of  Mansoul  now,  nothing 
us  to   be  found  but   harmony,  quietness,  joy  ami 
health.     And  tins  lasted  all  that  summer. 

But  there  was  a  man  in  the  town  of 
11  i.isoul,  and  his  name  was  Mr.  Carnal  The  story 
Security,  this  man  did,  after  all  this  of  Mr.  Gir- 
mercy  bestowed  on  this  corporation,  nal  Stcurt- 
bring  the  town  of  Mansoul  into  a  great  iy. 
and  grievous  slavery  and  bondage.  A  brief  ac- 
count of  him  and  his  doings  take  as  folio weth. 

When  Diabolus   at  first  took   possession  of  the 
town  of  Mansoul,   he   brought  hither   with   him  a 
great  number  of  Diabolians,  men  of  Ins  own  condi- 
tions.    Now  among  this   number  there 
was  one  whose   name  was  Mr.  Self-con-     Mr.   Self- 
ceit,  and  a  notable  brisk  man  he  was  as  conceit. 
any  that,  in  those  days,  possest  the  town 
of  Mansoul.     Diaholus  then  perceiving  this  maa  t& 
be  active  and  bold,  sent  him  upon  many   desperate 
designs,  the  which   he  managed  better,  and  more  to 
the  pleasing  of  his  lord,   than  most  that  came  wifnv 
kim  from  the  dens  could  do.     Wherefore  fiading  ot 
15  * 


174  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

him  so  fit  for  his  purpose,  he  preferred  him,  and 
Blade  him  next  to  the  great  lord  Willbewill,  of  whom 
Ave  have  written  so  mnr  h  before.  Now  the  lord 
Willbewill  being;  in  those  days  very  well  pleased 
with  him,  and  with  his  achievements,  gave  him  his 
daughter  the  Lady  Fairnothing;  to  wife.  Now  of 
my  Lady  Fairnothing,  did  this  Mr.  Self-conceit  be- 
get this  gentleman  Mr.  Carnal  Security. 
Carnal  Se-  Wherefore  there  beiug  then  in  Mansoul 
cavity's  o-  those  strange  kind  of  mixtures,  'twas 
riginal,  hard  for  them  in  some  casr s  to  find  out 
wha  were  natives,  who  not;  for  Mr. 
Carnal  Security  sprang  from  my  lord  Willbewill  by 
the  mother's  side,  though  he  had  for  his  father  a  Di- 
abolian  by  nature. 

Wei!,  this  Carnal  Security  took  much 
His  quali-  after  his  father  and  mother,  he  was  self- 
ties.  He  is  conceited,  he  feared  nothing,  he  was 
always  for  also  a  very  busy  man;  nothing  of  news, 
the  strong-  nothing  of  doctrine,  nothing  of  altera- 
cst  side.  tion,  or  talk  of  alteration,  eould  at  any 
time  be  on  foot*  in  Mansoul,  but  be  sure 
Mr.  Carnal  Security  would  be  at  the  head  or  tail  of 
it :  but  to  be  sure  he  would  decline  those  that  he 
deemed  the  weakest,  and  stood  always  with  them 
(in  his  way  of  standing)  that  he  supposed  was  the 
strongest  side. 

Now  when  Shaddai  the  mighty,  and  Emmanuel 
his  son  made  war  upon  Mansoul  to  take  it,  this  Car- 
nal Security  was  then  in  the  town,  and  was  a  great 
doer  among  the  people,  encouraging  them  in  their 
rebellion,  putting  of  them  upon  hardening  of  them- 
•elves  in  their  resisting  of  the  King's  forces ;  but 
when  he  saw  that  the  town  of  Mansoul  was  taken 
ami  converted  to  the  use  of  the  glorious  Prince  Em- 
manuel ;  and  when  he  also  saw  what  was  become  ©f 
Diabolus,  and  how  he  was  uuroosted,  and  made  to 
^uit  the  castle  in  the  greatest  contempt  and  scorn, 
and  that  the  town  of  Mansoul  was  well  lined  with 
captains,  engines  of  war,  and  meu,  and  also  provis- 
ions, what  doth  he  but  slily  wheels  about  also  ;  and 
*»  he  bad  served  Diabolus  against  the  good  Prince. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  17$ 

so  he  feigned  that  he  would  serve  the  Prince  against 
his  foes. 

And  having  got  some  little  smattering  of  Em- 
manuel's things  hy  the  end,  being  bold,  he  ventures 
himself  into  the  company  of  the  townsmen,  and  at- 
tempts also  to  chat  among  them.     Now 
he   knew  that  the    power   and  strength  How     Mr. 
of  Mansoul  was  great,  and  that  he  could  Carnal  Se- 
not  be  but  pleasing  to  the  people,  if  he  curity     be- 
cried  up    their  might  and   their  glory,  gins       the 
Wherefore   he  beginneth  his   tale  with  miseries  of 
the  power  and  strength  of  Mansoul,  and  Mansoul. 
affirmed  that  it  was  impregnable.     Now 
magnifying    their   captaius,   and    their   slings,   and 
their  ranio  ;  then  crying  up    their  fortifications  and 
strong  holds  ;  and  lastly,  the   assurances    that  they 
had  from  their  Prince,  that  Mansoul  should  be  hap- 
py  for  ever.     But  when    he  saw  that  some  of  the 
men  of  the   town  were  tickled,  and  taken  with   his 
discourse,  he   makes  it  his   business,   and   walking 
from  street  to  street,   house  to  house,   and    man    to 
mau,  he  at  last  brought  Mansoul  to  dance  after  his 
piue,  and  to  grow   almost  as  carnally 
secure  as  himself;  so  from  talking  ihey  JTis       not 
went  to   feasting,  and    from  feasting  to  grace     re- 
sporting,  and  so  to  some  other  matters ;  ceived,    but 
now  Emmanuel   was  yet  in  the  town  of  grace    irn- 
Maesoul,  and  he   wisely  observed  their  proved, 
doings.     My  lord  Mayor,  my  lord  Will-  that     pre- 
be  will,  and  Mr.  Recorder,   were  also  all  serves    the 
token  with  the  words  of  this  talking  Dia-  soul  from 
bolian  gentleman,  forgetting  that  their  temporal 
Prince  had  given  them  warning  before,  dangers. 
take  heed   that   they  were  not  beguiled 
with  any  Diabolian  flight:  he  had  further  told  them, 
that  the  security  of  the  now  flourishing  town  of  Man- 
soul, did   not  so   much   lie  in  her  present  fortirica- 
tions  and  force,  as  in  her  so  using  what  she  had,  as 
might  oblige  her  Emmanuel  to  abide  within  her  cas- 
tle.    For  the  right  doctrine  of  Emmanuel  was,  that 
the  town  of  Mansoul  should  take  heed  that  they  for- 
got not  hi3  Father's  love  and  his  j  also,  that  they 


tit  WFTE  HOLY  WA*. 

•hould  so  demean  themselves,  as  to  continue  to 'keep 
ihfrjslvr-s  therein.  Now  this  was  not  the  wzy  10 
do  it,  namely,  to  fall  in  love  with  one  of  the  Diabo* 
lknV,  and  with  such  an  one  too  as  Mr.  Carnal  Se- 
curity was,  and  to  be  led  up  and  down  by  the  nose 
by  him:  they  should  have  heard  their  Prioce,  fcus 
ed  their  Prince,  loved  their  Prince,  and  have  gto<  d 
this  naughty  pack  to  death  :  and  took  care  to  hnv* 
walked  m  the  ways  of  their  Prince's  prescribing, 
for  then  shou!<l  their  peace  have  been  as  a  river, 
when  their  righteousness  had  been  like  th«  wave* 
©f  the  sea. 

"Now  when  Emmanuel  perceived  that,  through 
the  policy  of  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  the  hearts  of  the 
mu  of  Mansoul  were  chilled  and  abated  in  their 
practical  love  to  him, 

Emmanuel  !&**?  b™°T  them\and  com,?!e* 
,  ^  their  state   with  vhe  secretary,    saying, 

jm    °      j       "Oh  that  my  people  had   hearkened  un- 

._,  '      to  me,  and  that  Mansoul   had  walked  its. 

\v  ways  !  I  wou<d  have  fed  them  with  the  finest  of 

1         heat,  and    with  honey  out  of  the  rocks  would 

I  have  sustained  them."     This  done,  he  said  in  his 

heart,  "I  will  return  to  the  court,  and  goto  my  place 

till  Mansoul   shall  consider  and  acknowledge  their 

oifer.ee  ;"  and  he  did  so,  and   the  cause  and  manner 

of  his  going  from  them  was  thus : 

The  caust  was  for  that, 

First,    Mansoul  declined    him,  as  is 

The  way  of  manifest  in  these  narticnl  ars, 

Man&ouVs         1.  They  left  oft  their  former  way  of 

backslid-      visiting  him,  they  came  not  to  his  royal 

ing.  palace  as  afore. 

2.  They  did  not  regard,  nor  yet  take 

notice  that  he  came,  or  came  not  to  visit  them, 

3.  The  love-feasts  that  had  wont  to  be  betwixt 
their  Prince  and  them,  though  he  mu\e  them  still 
and  called  them  to  them,  yet  they  neglected  to  come 
to  them,  or  to  be  delighted  with  them. 

4.  They  waited  not  for  his  counsels,  but  began  to 
he  headstrong  and  confident  in  themselves,  con- 
cluding that  m»w  they  were  strong  and  inviflciw]^ 


3?HE  HOLY  WAR.  177 

and  that  Mansoul  was  secure,  and  beyond  all  reack 
•f  the  foe,  and  that  her  state  must  needs  be  unalter- 
able for  ever. 

Now,  as  was  said,  Emmanuel  perceiving  that  by 
the  craft  of  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  the  town  of  Man- 
sou!  was  taken  off  from  (heir  dependence  upon  him, 
and  upon  his  Father  by  him,  and  set  upon  what  by 
them  was  bestowed  upon  him ;  he  first,  as  I  said, 
bemoaned  their  state,  then  he  used  means  to  make 
them  understand  that  the  way  that  they  went  ou 
in  was  dangerous ;  for  he  sent  my  Lord  feigh  Secre- 
tary to  them,  to  forbid  them  such  ways;  .but  twice 
when  he  came  to  them,  he  found  them  at  dinner  ia 
Mr.  Carnal  Security's  parlour;  and  perceiving  also, 
that  they  were  not  willing  to  reason  about  matter* 
•onceraing  their  good,  he  took  grief  and  went  his 
way.  The  which  when  he  had  told  to 
the  Prince  Emmanuel,  he  took  offence,  They  grieve 
and  was  grieved  also,  and  so  made  pro-  the  holy 
▼is ion  to  return  to  his  Father's  court.       Ghost     a/*4 

Now  the  methods  of  his  withdrawing,  Christ. 
as  I  was  saying  before,  were  thus: 

1.  Even  while  he  was  yet  with  them  Christ  with- 
in  Mansoul  he  kept  himself  close,  and  draws  noh 
more  retired  than  formerly.  all  at  once. 

2.  His    speech  Has    not   now   (if  he 

eame  in  their  company)  so  pleasant  and  familiar  atf 
formerly. 

3.  Nor  did  he,  as  in  times  past,  send  to  Mansoul 
from  his  table,  those  dainty  bits  which  he  was  wont 
to  do. 

4.  Nor  when  they  came  to  visit  him,  as  now  and 
then  they  did,  would  he  be  so  easily  spoken  with  as* 
they  found  him  to  be  in  times  past.  They  might 
now  knock  once,  yea,  twice,  but  he  would  not  seem 
not  at  ail  to  regard  them  :  Whereas  formerly,  at  the 
sound  of  their  feet,  he  would  up  and  run,  and  meet 
them  half  way,  and  take  them  too,  and  lay  them  ia 
his  bosom. 

But  thus  Emmanuel  carried  it  now,  and  by  this 
his  carriage  he  sought  to  mike  them  bethink  tb^m- 
i^lves  and  return  t©  him.     But  aiu* !  they   did  mb 


178  THE  HOLY  WAH. 

consider,  they  did  not  know  his  ways,  they  regard- 
ed not,  they  were  not  touched  with  these,  nor  with 
the  true  remembrance  of  former  favours. 
He  is  gone  Wherefore  what  does  he,  but  in  private 
Esclc.  11.  manner  withdraws  himself,  first  from  his 
21.  palace,  then  to  the  gate  of  the  town,  and 

Hos.  5.  15.  so  away  from  Mansoul  he  goes,  til!  they 
Lev.  26,  should  acknowledge  their  offence,  and 
21 .  to  24.  more  earnestly  seek  his  face.  Mr.  Gods- 
peace  also  laid  down  hi3  commission, 
and  would,  for  the  present,  act  no  longer  in  the  town 
of  Mansoul. 

Thus  they  walked  contrary  to  him,  and  he  agai« 
by  way  of  retaliation,  walked  contrary  to  them. 
But  alas  !  by  this  time  they  were  so  hardened  in 
their  way,  and  had  so  drunk  in  the  doc- 
Jer.  2.  32.  trine  of  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  that  the 
departing  of  their  Prince  touched  the?* 
Bot,  nor  was  he  remembered  by  them  when  gone  ; 
*nd  so,  of  consequence,  his  absence  not  condoled  by 
them. 

Now  there  was  a  day  wherein  this  old  gentlemaa 
Mr.  Carnal  Security,  did  again  make  a  feast  for  the 
town  of  Mansoul,  and  there  was  at  that  time  in  the 
town  one  Mr.  Godiyfear;  one  now  but  little  set  by 
though  one  of  great  request.  This  m:iu 
A  trick  put  old  Carnal  Security  had  a  mind,  if  :  os- 
upon  Mr.  sible,  to  gull  and  debauch,  and  abuse  ai 
Godiyfear;  he  did  the  rest,  and  therefore  he  now 
he  goes  to  bids  him  to  the  feast  with  his  neigh- 
the  feast  bours:  so  the  day  being  come  they 
and  sits  prepare,  and  he  goes  and  appears  with 
there  like  a  the  rest  of  the  guest*;  and  being  all  set 
stranger,  at  the  table,  they  did  eat  md  drink,  and 
were  merry*  even  ail  but  this  one  m>n. 
Mr.  Godly fe?r  sat  like  a  stranger,  and  did  neither 
eat  nor  was  merry:  the  which  when  Mr.  Carnal 
Security  perceived,  he  presently  addressed  himself 
in  a  speech  thus  to  hira. 

Gam.  Mr.  Godiyfear,  are  you  not 
Tdk  br-  well?  You  -seern  io  be  "ill  of  bod^  or 
fyvat     Mr,  mind,  or  doui  *   a  have  cordial  of  Mr* 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  1?§ 

Forgetgood's  making,  the  which,  sir,  if  Carnal  Se- 
you  will  take  a  dram  of,   I   ho;>e  it  may  airily   aid 
make    you    bonny    and   blithe,  and  so  M>\  Godly- 
make  you  more  fit  for  we  feasting  torn-  fear. 
panions. 

Unto  whom  the  good  old  gentleman  discre^tJr 
replied,  "  Sir,  1  thank  you  for  all  things  courteous \j 
and  civilly,  hut  for  your  cordial,  I  have  no  list  there- 
to.    But  a  word  to  the  natives  of  Mfansoul, 

"  You  the  elders  and  chiefs  of  Mansoul,  to  me  it 
is  strange  to  see  you  sojor  i: \  and  merry,  when  iht 
town  of  Mausoul  is  in  such  woful  cas«e." 

Cam.  You  want  sleep,  sir,  I  doubt.  If  you  piers* 
lie  down  and  take  a  nap,  and  the  meanwhile  fte'JI 
be  merry. 

Godly.  Sir,  if  you  were  not  destitute  of  an  honest 
heart,  you  could  not  do  as  you  have  done  and  do. 
Cam.  Why. 

Godly.  Nay,  pray  interrupt  me  not.  It  is  true 
the  town  of  Mansoul  was  strong,  and  (with  a  provi- 
so) impregnable 5  but  you,  the  townsmen,  hue 
weakened  it,  mid  it  now  lies  obnoxious  to  its  foes  ; 
nor  is  it  a  time  to  flatter  or  be  silent,  it  13  you,  Mr. 
Carnal  Security,  that  have  wholly  stripped  Maa- 
soul,  ami  driven  her  glory  from  her;  you  have  pul- 
led down  her  towers,  you  have  broken  down  her 
^ates,  you  have  spoiled  hrr  locks  and  bars. 

And  now  to  explain  myself,  from  that  time  that 
niy  lords  of  Mansoul  and  you,  sir,  grew  so  great; 
from  that  time  the  Prince  of  Mansoul  has  been  of- 
fended, Hnd  now  In  is  risen  and  gone.  If  any  sh-ill 
i^estion  the  truth  of  my  words,  I  will  answer  him 
fey  this,  and  such  like  questions.  Where  is  the 
Prince  Emmanuel  ?  When  did  a  man  or  woman  it 
Mansoul  see  him  ?  When  did  you  hear  from  hint 
or  taste  any  of  his  dainty  bits  ?  You  are  now  feast- 
ing with  this  Diabolian  monster,  but  he  is  not  your 
Prince.  I  say  therefore,  though  enemies  from  with- 
out, had  you  taken  heed,  could  not  have  made  a 
prey  of  you;  yet  since  you  have  sinned  against 
your  Prince,  y^ur  enemies  withiu  nave  been  to© 
kard  for  you* 


ISO  $HB  HOLY  WAR. 

Cam.  F}r, fy,  Mr.  Godyfear,  i'y ;  will  you  a»v£r 
sh^ke  off  your  timorousness  ?  Are  you  afraid  of  be- 
ing sparrow  blast ed  ?  Who  hath  hurt  you  ?  Behold 
I  am  on  your  side,  only  you  are  for  doubttng,  and  I 
am  for  being  confident.  Besides  is  this  a  time  for 
being  sad  in  ?  A  feast  is  made  for  mirth,  why  then 
do  you  now,  to  your  shame  and  our  trouble,  break 
into  such  passionate  and  melancholy  language,  when 
you  should  eat,  and  drink,  mid  be  merry  ? 

Godly.  I  may  well  be  dad,  for  Emmanuel  is  gone 
from  Mansoul.  I  s*y  again  he  is  gone,  and  you* 
sir,  are  the  man  that  has  driven  him  away  ;  yea,  he 
is  gone,  without  so  much  as  acquainting  the  nobles 
of  Mansoul  with  his  going:  and  if  that  is  not  a  sign 
of  hi?  anger,  1  am  not  acquainted  with  the  methods 
©f  godliness. 

"  And  now,  my  lords  and  gentlemen^ 
His  speech  for  my  speech  is  still  to  you ;  your  gra- 
ta the  elders  dual  declining  from  him,  did  provoke 
of Mansoul  him  gradually  to  depart  from  you,  the 
which  he  did  for  some  time,  if  perhaps 
you  would  have  been  made  sensible  thereby,  and 
have  been  renewed  by  huiahliag  of  yourselves  ;  but 
^vhen  he  saw  that  none  would  regard  nar  lay  these 
fearful  beginnings  of  his  anger  and  judgment  to  heart, 
he  went  away  from  this  place,  and  this  I  say?  with 
mine  eye.  Wherefore  now  while  you  boast  your 
.strength  is  gone,  you  are  like  the  man  that  had  lost 
locks  that  before  did  wave  about  hi3  shoulders.  You 
may,  with  this  Lord  of  your  feast,  shake  yourselves, 
and  conclude  to  do  as  at  other  times ;  but  since  with- 
out him  you  can  do  nothing,  and  he  is  departed 
from  you,  turn  your  feast  into  a  sigh,  and  your  mirth 
into  a  lamentation." 

Then   the  subordinate  preacher,  old 

Conscience    Mr.  Conscience  by  name,  he  that  of  old 

startled.       was  recorder  of  Mansoul,  being  startled 

at  what  was  said,  began  to  second  it  thus: 

Con.  Indeed  my  brethren,  quoth  he,  I  fear  that 
Mr.  Godlyfear  tells  us  true;  I,  for  my  part,  have 
not  seen  my  Prince  for  a  long  season.  I  cannot  re- 
j^embe*  the  day  for  my*  part.     Ner  caa  1  answer 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  V81 

Mr.  Godlyfear*s  question.     I  doubt,  I  am  afraid,  that 
all  is  naught  with' Mansoul. 

Godly.     Nay,  I   know  that  you  shall 
not  find  him  in  Mansoul,  for  he  is  de-  They     are 
parted  and  gone;  yea,  and  gone  for  the  aghast. 
faults  of  the  eiders,  and  for  that  they  re- 
warded his  grace  with  unsufferable  unkindness. 

Then  did  the  subordinate  preacher  look  as  if  he 
won  Id  fall  down  dead  at  the  table,  also  all  there 
present,  except  the  man  of  the  house,  began  to  look 
pale  and  waa.  But  having  a  little  recovered  them- 
selves, and  jointly  agreeing  to  believe  Mr.  Godly- 
fe  ir  and  his  sayings,  they  began  to  consult  what  was 
best  to  be  ('one  (now  Mr.  Carnal  Security  was  gone 
into  his  withdrawing  room,  for  he  liked  not  such 
dampish  doings;  both  to  the  man  of  the  house  for 
drawing  them  into  evil,  and  also  to  recover  Emman- 
uel's love. 

And  with   that,   that  saying   of  their 
Prince  came  very   hut   in   their    minds,  They    can- 
which   he   had   bidden  them  do  to  such  suit       and 
as  were  false  prophets  to  it  should  arise  burn    their 
to   delude    the  town   of    Mansoul.     So  feast    mas- 
they  took  Mr.   Carnal  Security,  conelu-  ter. 
d.n;r  that  he  must  be  he,  and  burned  his 
ho  se  upon  him  with  fire,  for  he  also  was  a  Diabolt- 
aa  by  nature. 

So  when  this  was  passed  over,  they  Cant.  5.  6. 
bt speed  themselves  to  look  for  Emman- 
uel ttuir  Prince;  and  they  sought  him,  but  they 
fo -.i!id  him  not  ;  then  were  they  more  confirmed  in 
the  truth  of  Jr.  God  J /fear's  sayings,  ;;id  began  a'so 
to  reflect  severely  on  themse  _s,  for  their  so  vile 
and  ringodjy  deii  fop  they  concluded  now,  that 
it  was  through  tl  i    i  their  Prince  had  left  them. 

Then  tb<  y  agreed,  .  went  to  my  Lord's  Secre- 
tary, (him  whom  before  they  refused  to 
he-it,  him  whom  ill  :y  had  grieved  with  They  apply 
t!  ?r  iloi.igs)  to  know  of  him,  for  he  was  themselves 
a  .<eer,  and  could  tefl  where  Emmanuel  to  the  Holy 
WH^artdhow  they  might  direct  a  peti-  Ghost,  but 
fiou  to  hn«.  But  the  Lord'*  Secretary  heisgrietfd 
16 


«&2  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Jsa.  63. 10.  would  not  admit  them  to  a  coherence 
Eph.  5.  30.  about  this  matter,  nor  would  admit  them 
Thes.  5.  19  to  his  royal  place  of  abode,  nor  come 
out  to  them  to  shew  them  his  face  or 
give  intelligence. 
And  now  was  it  a  day  gloomy  and  dark,  a  day  of 
©louds  and  of  thick  darkness  with  Mansoul.  Now 
they  saw  that  they  had  been  foolish,  and  began  to 
perceive  what  the  company,  and  the  prattle  of  Mr. 
Carnal  Security  had  done ;  and  what  desperate  da- 
mage his  swaggering  words  had  brought  poor  Man- 
soul  into.  But  what  further  it  was  like  to  cost  them, 
that  they  were  ignorant  of.  Now  Mr.  Godly  fear 
began  again  to  be  in  repute  with  the  men  of  the 
town  ;  yea,  they  were  ready  to  look  upon  him  as   a 

prophet. 
A  thunder-       Well,   when  the  sabbath    day    wag 
ing  sermon  come,  they  went   to  hear  their  subordi- 
nate preacher ;  but  oh  how  did  he  ihun- 
Jonah  2.  8.  der  and  lighten  this  day  !    His  text  wag 
in  the  prophet   Jonah,  "  They  that  ob- 
serve   tying   vanities,  fors:»Jve  their  own  mercies.55 
But  there  was  then  such  power  and  authority  in  that 
sermon,  and  such  a  dejection  seen  in  the  countenan- 
ces of  the  people  that  day,  that  the  like  hath  seldom 
been  heard  or  seen.     The  people,  when  sermon  was 
done,  were  scarce  able  to  go  to  their  homes,  or  to 
betake  themselves  to  their  employs   the 
ffos.  6. 13.  week  after;  they   were  so  sermon  smit- 
ten, and  also  so  sermon-sick,   by  being 
smitten,  that  they  knew  not  what  to  do. 
The  subor-       He   did  not  only  shew  to   Mansoul 
dinate  their  sin,  but  did   tremble  before  them. 

preacher  under  the  sense  of  his  own,  still  crying 
doth  ac-  out  of  himself,  as  he  preached  to  them, 
knowledge  "Unhappy  maa  that  I  am,  that  I  should 
his  fault,  do  so  wicked  a  thing !  That  I !  a  prea- 
andbewails  cher!  Whom  the  Prince  did  set  up  to 
his  compli-  teaoh  to  Mansoul  his  law,  should  my- 
ance  tvith  self  live  senseless  and  sottishly  here, 
Mr.  Car-  and  be  one  of  the  first  found  in  trans- 
fix Securir  gression,     This   transgression  also  fell 


£HE  HOLY  WAR.  1S3 

within  my  precincts,  I  should  have  cri-  it/. 

ed  out  against  the  wickedness,  but  I  let  Psal.   83. 

Mansoul  lie  wallowing  in  it  until  it  had 

driven  Emmanuel   from   its   borders."     With  these 

things  he  also,  charged  all  the  lords   and  gentry  of 

Mansoul,  to  the  almost  distracting  of  them. 

About  this  time  also  there  was  a  great 
sickness  in  Lie  town  of  Mansoul ;  and  A        great 
most  of  the  inhabitants  were  greatly  af-  sickness  in 
fiicted.    Yea,  the  captains  also,  and  men  Mansoul. 
of  war,  were   brought  thereby  to  a  lan- 
guishing condition,  and   that  for  a  long  time  togeth- 
er;   so  that  m  case  of  invasion,  nothing  could   to 
purpose   now  have  been  done,  either  by  the  towns- 
men or  tieid  officers.     Oh  how   many  pale  faces, 
weak    hands,  feeble   knees,   and    staggering    mea 
were  now  seen  to  walk  in   the  streets   of  Mansoul. 
Here  were  groans,  there  pants,  and  yonder  lay  those 
tfiat  were  ready  to  faint. 

The  garwenti  too  which  Emmanuel  had  given 
them,  were  but  in  a  very  sorry  case: 
some  were  rent,  some  were  torn,  and  Heb.  12.1 2.18 
all  in  a  nasty  condition ;  some  also  Isa.  3.  24. 
did  hang  so  loosely  upon  them,  that  Sin  doth  canoe 
the  next  bush  they  came  at  was  ready  tebeweakboth 
to  pluck  them  off.  body  and  soul. 

After  some  time   spent  in  this  sad  and  graces. 
and  desolate    coudition,  the   subordi- 
nate preacher  called  for  a  day  of  fasting,  and   to 
humble  themselves  for  their  being  so  wicked  against 
the  great  Shaddai  and  his  son.    And  he  desired  ttiat 
captain  Boanerges  would  preach.  So  he 
consented  to  it,  and   the  day  was  come,  Boanerges 
and  his  text  was   thus,   "  Cut  it   down,  doihpreaeh 
why  cumbereth  it  the  ground  ?"     And  a  to    Man- 
very  smart   sermon   he   m\de  upon  the  soul. 
place.     First,  He  shewed  what  was  the 
occasion   of  the  words,    to   wit,  "because  the  fig- 
tree  was  barren ;"  then   he  shewed   what  was  con- 
tained in  the  sentence,  to   wit,  "  Repentance,  or  ut- 
ter desolation."'     Re  then  shewed    also,   by  whose 
authority    the  sentence   was   pronounced,,  and  that 


1*4  ^«E  HOLY  WAR. 

was  by  Shaddai  himself.     Aud    lastly,  he   shewed 
the  reasons  of  the   point,   and   then   concluded   his 

sermon.     But  he  was  very  pertinent  in 

The  men  of  the  application,  insomuch  that  he  made 

Mansoul      poor   Mansoul    tremble.     For   this  ser- 

much  af-      mon,   83   well   as  the  former,    wrought 

fectcd.  much  upon   the  hearts  of   the   men  of 

Mansoul;  yea,  it  greatty  helped  to 
keep  awake  those  that  were  roused  by  the  preach- 
ing that  went  before.  So  that  now  throughout  the 
w hole  town,  there  was  little  or  nothing  to  .be  heard 
•rseen,  but  sorrow,  and  mourning,  and  woe. 

Now  after  sermon  they  got  together. 
They  con-  &m\  consulted  what  was  best  to  be  done. 
suit  what  But  said  the  subordinate  preacher,  I 
to  do.  will  do  nothing  of  mine  own  head  with- 

out advising  with  my  neighbour,  Mr. 
fJodlyfear. 

For  if  he  had  afore,  and  understood  more  of  the 
Miind  of  our  Prince  than  we,  i  do  not  know  but  he 
also  may  have  it  now,  even  now  we  are  turning  a- 
jain  to  virtue  ;  so  they  called  and  sent  for  Mr.  God- 
ly fear,  and  he  forthwith  appeared;  then  they  desir- 
ed that  he  would  further  shew  his  opinion  about 

what  they  had  best  to  do.  Then  said 
Mr.  Godly-  the  old  gentleman  as  followeth,  "  It  is 
fear's  a&-  my  opinion,  that  this  town  of  Mansoul 
vice.  should,   in  this  day  of  her  distress,  draw 

up,  and  send  an  humble  petition  to  their 
•(Tended  Prince  Emmanuel,  that  he,  in  his  favour 
and  grace  may  turn  again  unto  you,  and  not  keep 
anger  for  ever." 

When  the  townsmen  had  heard  this  speech;  they 
«lul  with  one  consent  agree  to  his  advice;  so  they 
ilid  presently  draw  up  their  request ;  and  the  next 
was,  But  who  shall  carry  it  ?  At  last  they  did  all  a- 

gree  to  send  it  by  my  lord  Mayor.  So 
They  send  he  accepted  of  the  service,  and  add  res* 
the  lord  sed  himself  to  his  journey,  a«id  went 
Mayor  to  and  came  to  the  court  of  Shaddai, 
Cmrt.  where  Emmanuel  the   Prince  was  gone. 

But  the  gate   was  shut,  and  a  stritt 


1*n&  HOLY  WAR.  185 

watch  set  thereat,  so  that  the  petitioner  was  forcf  d 
to  stand  without  for  a  great  while  together.     Then 
he  desired  that  some  would  go  in  to  the  Prince,  and 
tell    him  who  stood   at  the    gate,    and 
what  his  business  was.  So  one  went  and  Lam.  3.  3. 
told  to  Shaddai,  and  to  Emmanuel  his  44. 
son,  that  the  lord  Mayor  of  the  town  of 
Mansoul   stood  without  at   the  gate  of  the   King's 
court,  desiring  to  be  admitted  into-  the  presence  of 
the  Prince,  the  King's  son.     He  also  told  what  w:s 
the   lord   Mayor's  errand,  both  to  the  King  and  his 
son  Emmanuel.     But  the   Prince  would   not  come 
down,  nor  admit  that  the  *ates  should  be  opened  to 
him,  but  sent  him   an  answer  to  this  ef- 
fect.    "  They   have    turned   their  back  Jer.    2.  27. 
unto  me  and  not  their  face,  but  now  in  23. 
the  time  of  their  trouble,    they   say   to  A      dread- 
me,  Arise  and  save   us.     But  can  they  ful      an- 
not  now   go  to  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  to  swer. 
whom    they   went  when   they  returned 
from  me  ;  and  make   him   their   leader,   their  lord, 
and  their  protector ;  why   new  in  their  trouble   do 
they  visit  me,  since  in   their  prosperity  they   went 
astray  ? 

This   answer  made  the  lord   Mayor 
look   black  in   the   face:  it  troubled,  it  Lam.  4.  7. 
perplexed,   it  rent  him  sore  ;  and  now  8. 
he  began  again  to  see  what  it  was  to  be 
familiar  with   Diabolians,   such   as    Mr.  Carnal  Se- 
curity   was.     When    he    saw    that    at 
court,  as  yet,   there   was  little   help  to  The      lord 
be    expected,    either     for     himself    or  Mayor    re- 
friends  in    Mansoul,  he  smote  upon  his  turns,    and 
breast,    and    returned   weeping,  and  all  how. 
the  way  bewailing  the  lamentable  state 
of  Mansoul. 

Well,  when  he  was  come  within  sight  of  ih% 
town,  the  elders  and  chief  of  the"- petiole  of  Mane 
soul  went  out  at  the  gate  to  meet  him,  and  to  sa- 
lute him,  and  to  know  how  he  sped  at 
court.  But  he  told  (hem  his  taJe  in  so  The  state 
doleful  a  manner,  thiti  they  all  cried  out,  of  ManP 
16  * 


386  iHE  HOLY  WA%. 

soul   now.     and    mourned  and  wept.       Wherefore 
,  they  threw  ashes  and   dust  upon  their 

beads,  and  put  sack-cloth  upon  their  loins,  and  went 
crying  out  throughout  the  town  of 
The  whole  Mansoul ;  the  which,  when  the  rest  of 
town  cast  the  townsfolk  saw,  they  all  mourned 
down.  and  wept.     This  therefore  was  a  day  of 

rebuke   and   trouble,  and   of  anguish  to 
the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  also  of  great  distress. 
After  some  time,  when  they  had  somewhat  re- 
frained themselves,  they  came    together 
They    con-  to  consult  again,  what  by  them  was  yet 
suit  again,  to  be  done ;  and  they  asked   advice,  as 
they  did  before,  of  that  reverend   Mr. 
Mr.  Godly-  Godlyfear,   who   told  them   that   there 
fear's     ad-  was  no  way  better  than   to  do  as  they 
vice.  had  done,  nor  would  he  that  they  should 

be  discouraged  at  all  with  what  they  had 
met  with  at  court :  yea,  though  several  of  their  pe- 
titions should  be  answered  with  naught  but  silence 
or  rebuke :  For,  said  he,  it  is  the  way  of  the  wise 
Shaddai  to  make  men  wait,  and  to  exercise  pa- 
tience ;  and  it  should  be  the  way  of  them  in  want, 
to  be  willing  to  stay  his  leisure. 

Then  they  took  courage,  and  sent 
See  now  again,  and  again,  and  agaia  :  for  there 
what  is  the  was  not  new  one  day,  nor  an  hour,  that 
work  of  a  went  over  Mansoul's  head,  wherein  a 
iacksliding  man  might  not  have  met  upon  the  road 
saint  awa-  one  or  other  riding  post,  sounding  the 
kened.  hern  from  Mansoul   to  the  court  of  the 

Groaning  King  Shaddai ;  and  all  with  letters  peti- 
desvres.  tionary  in  behalf,  and  for  the  Prince's 
return  to  Mansoul. 
The  road,  I  say,  was  now  full  of  messengers,  go- 
ing and  returning,  and  meeting  o»e  another;  some 
from  the  court,  and  some  from  Mansoul ;  and  this 
was  the  work  of  the  miserable  town  of  Mansoul, 
all  that  long,  that  sharp,  that  cold  and  tedious  win- 
ter. 

Now,  if  you  have  not  forgot,  you  may 
Ammeih    yet  remember  that  I  t?id  you  before, 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  187 

that  after  Emmanuel  had  taken  Man-  to. 
soul,  yea,  and  after  that  he  had  new- 
modelfed  the  town,  there  remained  in  several  lurk- 
ing places  of  the  corporation,  many  of  the  old  Di- 
abolians, that  either  came  with  the  tyrant  when  he 
invaded  and  took  the  town,  or  had  been  there  by 
reason  of  unlawful  mixtures;  their  birth  and  breed- 
ing, their  bringing  up,  and  their  holes,  dens,  and 
lurking  places  were  in,  under,  or  about  the  wall  of 
the  town.  Some  of  their  names  are,  the  lord  Forni- 
cation, the  lord  Adultery,  the  lord  Murder,  the  lord 
Anger,  the  lord  Lasciviousness,  the  lord  Deceit, 
the  lord  Evil-eye,  the  lord  Blasphemy,  and  that  hor- 
rible villain,  the  old  and  dangerous  lord  Covetous- 
ness.  These,  as  I  told  you,  with  many  more,  had 
yet  their  abode  in  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  that, 
after  that  Emmanuel  had  driven  their  prince  Diab- 
#lus  out  of  the  castle. 

Against  these,   the  good  Prince  did  grant  a  com- 
mission to  the  lord  Willbewill  and  others;  yea,  to 
the  whole  town  of  Mansoul,  to  seek,  take,   secure, 
and  destroy  any,  or  all,    that  they  could  lay  hands 
on;  for  that  they  were    Diabolians  by  nature,  en- 
emies  to    the   Prince,   and   those    that 
sought  to  ruin  the  blessed  town  of  Man-  Mansoul 
soul.    But  the  town  of  Mansoul  did  not  heeded    not 
pursue    this    warrant,  but  neglected  to  the  Prince's 
look  after,  to  apprehend,  to  secure,   and  caution, 
to  destroy   these    Diabolians.     Where-  nor  put  his 
fore,  what  do  these   villains,  but  by  de-  commission, 
grees,    took  courage  to  put    forth  their  into  execu* 
heads,  and  to  shew   themselves  to  the  tion. 
inhabitants  of  the  town.     Yea,  and  as  I 
was  told,  some  of  the  mea  of  Mansoul  grew  too  fa- 
miliar with  some  of  them,  to  the   sorrow  of  the  cor- 
poration, as  you  yet  will  hear  more  of  in  time  and 
place. 

Well,  when  the  Diabolian  lords  that  were  left 
perceived    that  Mansoul  had,  through  sinning,  of- 
fended  Emmanuel  their  Prince,   and  that  he  had 
withdrawn  himself  and  was  gone,  what" 
fte  tbey  bat  plot  the  ruia  of  the  town  of  The    Dia* 


188  TRK  HOLY  WAR. 

holiatu?        Mansoul.     So  upon  a  time  they  met  t«- 
ploL  geiher,  at  the  hold  cf  one  Mr.  Mischief 

who  also  was  a  Di^bolian,  and  there 
consulted  how  they  might  deliver  up  Mansoul  into 
the  hands  of  Diabolus  again.  Now  some  advised 
one  way  and  some  another,  every  man  according  to 
his  own  liking.  At  last,  my  lord  Lasciviousness 
propounded,  whether  it  might  not  be  best,  in  the 
first  place,  for  some  of  those  that  were  Diabolians 
in  Mansoul,  to  adventure  to  offer  themselves  for 
servants  to  some  of  the  natives  of  the  town;  for 
said  he,  if  they  do  so,  and  Mansoul  shall  accept  of 
them,  they  may,  for  us,  and  for  Diabolus  our  lord, 
make  the  taking  of  the  town  of  Mansoul  more  easy 
than  otherwise  it  would  be.  But  then  stood  up  the 
lord  Murder,  and  said,  This  may  not  be  done  at 
this  time,  for  Mansoul  is  now  in  a  kind  of  rage,  be- 
cause, by  our  friend  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  she  hath 
been  once  ensnared  already,  and  made  to  offend 
against  her  Prince;  and  how  nail  she  reconcile 
iierself  unto  her  Lord  again,  but  by  the  heads  of 
these  men  ?  fiesides,  we  know  that  they  have  in 
commission,  to  take  and  slay  us  wherever  they  shall 
find  us,  let  us  therefore  be  wise  as  foxes  ;  when  we 
are  dead  we  can  do  them  no  hurt,  but  while  we  live 
we  may.  Thus  when  they  had  tossed  the  matter  t© 
and  fro,  they  jointly  agreed  that  a  letter 
They  send  should  forthwith  be  sent  away  to  Diab- 
lo hell  for  olus  in  their  name,  by  which  the  state  of 
advice.  the  town  of  Mansoul  should  be  shewed 

him,  and  how  much  it  is  under  the  frowns 
of  their  Prince ;  we  may  also,  said  some,  let  him 
know  our  intention,  and  ask  of  him  his  advice  in 
the  case. 

So  a  letter  was  presently  framed,  the  contents  of 
which  was  thus  : 

To  our  great  Lord,  the  Prince  Diabolus,  dwelling 
below,  in  the  infernal  cave. 

O  GREAT  father,  and  mighty  prince 
The  cojy      Biaboius,  we  the  true   Di&bulians,  yet 


TOE  HOLY  WAR.  iftt 

remaining    in   the    rebellious   town  of    of  their 
Uaosoul;    having  received   our  beings     Utter. 
from  thee,  and  our  nourishment  at   thy 
hands,  cannot,  with  content  and  quiet,  endure  to  be~ 
hold,  as  we  do   tins  day,  how    thou    art  dispraised* 
disgraced,  and  reproached  among  the  inhabitants  of 
this  town  ;  nor  is  thy  long  absence  at  all  delightful 
to  us,  because  greatly  to  our  detriment. 

The  reason  of  this  our  writing  unto  our  Lord  is, 
fbr  that  we  are  not  altogether  without  hope  that 
this  town  may  become  thy  habitation  again  :  for  it 
is  greatly  declined  from  its  Prince  Emmanuel,  and 
he  is  uprisen,  2nd  is  departed  from  them;  yea,  and 
though  they  send,  and  send,  and  send,  and  send  af- 
ter him  to  reiurm  to  them,  yet  can  they  not  prevail* 
nor  get  good  words  from  him. 

There  has  been  also  of  late,  and  is  yet  remain- 
ing, a  very  great  sickness  and  faintings  among 
them,  and  th  a  not  only  upon  the  poorer  sort  of  the 
town,  but  upon  the  lords,  captains,  and  chief  gen- 
try of  the  place,  (we  only,  who  are  of  the  Diaboli- 
ans  by  nature,  remain  well,  lively  and  strong:)  sa 
that  through  their  great  transgression  on  the  oue 
hand,  and  their  dangerous  sickness  on  the  other, 
we  judge  they  lie  open  to  thy  hand  and  power.  If 
therefore  it  shall  stand  with  thy  horrible  cunnings 
and  with  the  cunning  of  the  rest  of  thy  princes  with 
thee,  to  come  and  make  an  attempt  to  take  the 
town  of  Mansoul  again,  send  us  word,  and  we  shall 
to  our  utmost  power,  he  ready  to  deliver  it  into  your 
hand.  Or,  if  what  we  have  said,  shall  not,  by  the 
fatherhood,  be  thought  best,  and  most  meet  to  be 
done,  send  us  thy  mind  in  a  few  words,  end  we  are 
ait  ready  to  follow  thy  counsel,  to  the  hazarding  of 
tar  lives,  and  what  else  we  have. 

Given  under  our  bauds,  the  ilny  and  date  above 
Written,  after  a  close  consultation,  at  the  house 
oi  Mr.  Mischief,  who  13  yet  alive,  and  hath  his 
place  in  our  desirable  town  of  Mansouf. 

^  When  Mr.    Profane  (for  he  was  car-  Mr.  Tro- 
ut?) was  come  with  nis  teller  to  flett  fane       2* 


^§9  *HE  HOLY  WAR. 

carrier,  lie  gate-hill,  he  knocked  at  the  brazen-gate 
brings  the  for  entrance.  Then  did  Cerberus  the 
letter  to  porter  (for  he  is  the  keeper  of  that  gate) 
Hell-gate'  open  it  to  Mr.  Profane,  to  whom  he  de- 
hitt,  and  livered  his  letter,  which  he  had  brought 
tiierc  pre-  from  the  Diabolians  in  Mansoul.  £© 
sents  it  to  he  harried  it  in,  and  presented  it  to  Di- 
Cerbertts  abolus,  his  lord,  and  said,  Tidings,  my 
the  porter,     lord,  from  Mansoul ;  and  from  our  trusty 

friends  in  Mansoul. 
Then  came  together  from  all  places  of  the  den* 
Beelzebub,  Lucifer,  Apollyon,  with  the  rest  of  the 
rabblement  there,  to  hear  what  news  from  Mansoul. 
So  the  letter  was  broken  up  and  read,  and  Cerberus 
he  stood  by.  When  the  letter  was  openly  read^ 
and  the  contents  thereof  spread  into  all  the  corner* 
of  the  den,  command  was  given,  that  without  let  or 

slop,  Dead  man's  bell  should  be  rung 
Bead  man's  for  joy.  So  the  bell  was  rung,  and  the 
tell  and  princes  rejoiced  that  Mansoul  wai  like 
how  it  went,  to  come  to  ruin.     Now    the  clapper  of 

the  bell  went,   "The  town  of  Mansoul 

is  coming  to  dwell  with  us,  make  room  for  the  towa 

cf  Mansoul."     This  bell  therefore  they  did  ring,  be- 

*  cause  ihey  did  hope  that  they  shall  have   Mansoul 

again. 

Now  when  they  had  performed  this  their  horrible 
ceremony,  they  got  together  again,  to  consult  what 
answer  to  send  to  their  friends  in  Mansoul,  and 
some  advised  one  thing,  and  some  another;  but  at 
length,  because  their  business  required  haste,  they 
left  the  whole  business  to  the  Prince  Diabolus,  judg- 
ing him  the  most  proper  lord  of  the  place.  So  he 
drew  up  a  letter  as  he  thought  fit,  in  answer  to  what 
Mr.  Profane  had  nrought,  and  sent  it  to  the  Diabo- 
lians that  did  dwell  in  Mansoul,  by  the  same  hand 
that  had  brought  theirs  to  him.  And  this  was  the 
contents  thereof. 

To  our  offspring,  the  high  and  mighty  Diaboli- 
ans, lb  .1  yd  dweJI  in  Ihe  town  of  Mansoul, 
Diabolus  the  great  prince  of  Mansoul,  wisheth 


1HE  HOLY  WAR.  -ft'l 

a  prosperous  issue  and  conclusion  of  these 
many  brave  enterprises,  conspiracies,  and  de- 
signs, that  you,  of  }rour  love  and  rcs[>ect  to  oup 
honour,  have  in  your  hearts  and  attempt  to  do 
against  Mansoul. 

BELOVED  children  and  disciples,  my  lord  For- 
nication, Adultery,  and  the  rest,  we  have  here  in 
ear  desolate  den  received,  to  our  highest  joy  and 
content,  your  welcome  letter,  hy  the  htud  of  nur 
trusty  Mr.  Profane,  and  to  shew  how  acceptable 
your  tidings  were,  we  rang  out  our  beil  for  gladness  : 
fur  we  rejoiced  as  much  as  we  could,  and.  such  a* 
sought  our  honour  and  revenge  in  the  ruin  of  the 
town  of  Mansoul.  We  also  rejoice  to  hear  that 
they  are  in  a  degenerated  condition,  and  that  they 
have  offended  their  Prnce,  and  that  be  is  gone. 
Their  sickness  also  pleaseth  us,  as  does  also  your 
health,  might  and  strength.  Glad  also  would  ^e 
be,  right  horribly  beloved,  could  we  get  this  to\*  n 
into  our  clutches  again.  Nor  will  we  be  sparing  of 
spending  our  wit,  our  cunning,  our  craft,  and  hellish 
inventions,  to  bring  to  a  wished  conclusion,  this 
your  brave  beginning  in  order  thereto. 

And  take  this  for  your  comfort  (our  birth  and  our 
offspring)  that  shall  we  again   surprise  it  and    take 
it,  we  will  attempt  to  put  all  your  foes  to  the  sword, 
and  will  make  you  fhe  great   lords  and  captains  of 
the  place.     Nor    need  you  fear,  (if  ever  we   get  it 
again)  that  we,  after  that,  shall  be  cast  out  any  more; 
for  we  will  come  with  more  strength,  and 
so  lay  more  fas'  hold  than  at  first  we  did.  MaL  12.43*, 
Besides,  it  is  the  law  of  that  Prince,  that  44,  4£. 
now  they   own,  That  if  we  get  them  a 
second  Hme,  they  shall  be  ours  for  ever. 

Bo  you  therefore  our  trusty  Diabolians,  yet  more 
pry  into,  and  endeavour  to  spy  out  the  weakness  of 
the  town  of  Mansoul.  We  also  would,  that  you, 
yourselves,  do  attempt  to  weaken  them  more  and 
more.  Send  ua  word  also,  by  what  means  you  think 
we  had  Lest  attempt  the  regaining  thereof ;  to  wit, 
whether  by  perauasioa  to  a  vain  and  loose  life,  or^ 


1&2  TOE  HOLY  WAR. 

whether  by  tempting  them  to  doubt  and  despair ; 
©r,  whether  by  blowing  up  the  town  by  the  gun- 
powder and  pride  of  self-conceit.  Do  you  also,  O 
ye  brave  Diabclians  !  and  true  sons  of  the  pit,  be 
always  in  readiness  to  mike  a  most  hideous  assault 
within,  when  we  shall  be  ready  to  storm  it  wiihout, 
Now  speed  in  your  project,  and  we  in  our  desires, 
the  utmost  power  of  our  gates,  which  is  the  wish 
©f  your  great  Diabolus,  Mansoul's  enemy  and  him 
thai  trembles  when  he  thinks  of  judgment  to  come: 
Ail  the  blessings  of  the  pit  be  upon  yon,  and  so  we 
©lose  up  our  letter. 

Given  at  the  pit's  mouth,  by  the  joint  consent  of 
all  the  princes  of  darkness,  to  be  sent  (to  the 
force  and  power  that  we  have  yet  remaining 
in  Mansoul)  by  the  hand  of  Mr.  Profane. 

By  me  Diabolus, 

This  letter,  ns  was  said,  was  sent  to  Mansoul,  to 
the  Diabolians  that  yet  remained  there, 
Flesh.  and  that  yet  inhabited  the  wall  from  the 

dark  dungeon  of  Diabolus,  by  the  hand 
Profane  of  Mr,  Profane,  by  whom  they  also*  in 
comes  home  Mansoul  sent  theirs  to  the  pit.  Now 
again.  when    this  Mr.    Profane  had  made    his 

return  and  was  come  to  Mansoul  again, 
be  went  and  came  as  he  was  wont,  to  the  house  of 
Mr.  Mischief,  for  there  was  the  conclave,  and  the 
pl^ce  where  ihe  con  I  rivers  were  met.  Now  when 
they  saw  that  their  messenger  was  returned  s  a°e 
and  sound,  they  were  great \y  gladdened  there-it. 
Then  he  presented  them  his  tetter,  which  he  \  d 
brought  from  Dianolus  for  tl  lens  ;  the  which  wh»a 
the}7  had  read  and  considered,  did  much  augment 
their  gladness.  They  asked  him  after  the  welfare 
©f  their  friends,  as  how  their  lord  Diabohis,  Luci- 
fer, and  Beelzebub  did,  with  the  rest  of  those  of  the 
den.  To  which  thss  Profane  mode  answer,  Weil, 
well,  my  lords,  they  ar</  well,  even  as  well  as  c  i 
be  in  their  place.  They  also,  siid  he,  did  ring  lor 
joy  at  reading  of  your  letter,  as  you  will  perceive 
hf  liiig)  when  yoa  read  it. 


THE  HOLY  WAR,  jfj| 

Now,  as  was  said,  when  they  had  read  their  letter, 
and  perceived  that  it  encouraged  them  in  their 
\York,  t&ey  Tell  to  their  way  of  contriving  again,  te 
\yit,  how  they  might  complete  their  Diaholian  de- 
sign upon  Mansoul.  And  the  first  thing  that  they 
agreed  upon  was,  To  keep  all  things  from  Mansoui 
as  close  as  they  could. 

Let  it  not  be  known,  let  not  Mansoul  be  acquaint- 
ed with  what  they  design  against  it.  The  next 
thiag  was,  How,  or  by  what  means  they  should  fcry 
to  bring  to  pass  the  ruin  and  overthrow  of  iVlansoui ; 
and  one  said  after  this  manner,  and  another  said  af- 
ter that.  Then  stood  up  Mr.  Deceit,  and  sa^d,  my 
right  Diabolian  friends,  our  lords,  and  tiie  high  one 
©f  the  deep  dungeon,  do  propound  unto  us  these 
three  ways, 

1.  Whether  we  had  better  seek  its  ruin,  by  mak- 
ing of  Mansoul  loose  and  vain. 

2.  Or  whether  by  driving  them  to  doubt  and  des- 
pair. 

3.  Or  whether  by  endeavouring  to  blow  them  up 
by  the  gun-powder  of  pride  and  self-conceit. 

Now  I   think  if  we  shall  tempt   them 
to    pride,  that  may  do  something ;  and  Take  heed 
if  we    tempt  them  by   wantonness,  that  MansouL 
may  help.    But  in  my  naind,  if  we  couid 
drive  them  into  desperation,    that  would  knock  the 
Bail  on  the    head:  for  then    we  should   have  them, 
in  the  first  place,   to  question   the    truth  of  the  love 
©f  the  heart  of  their  Prince  towards  them,  and  that 
will  disgust  him  much.    This,  if  it  works  well,  will 
make  them  leave  off  quickly   their  way  of  sending 
petitions  to  him  ;  then  farewell  earnest  solicitations 
for  help  and   supply ;  for  then  this  conclusion  lies 
naturally    before  them.     As  good  do  nothing,  as  d© 
to  no  purpose.     So  to  Mr.  Conceit  they  unanimous- 
ly did  consent. 

Then  the  next  question  was,  But  how  shall  we 
do  to  bring  this  our   project   to   pass  ? 
Qiid  it  was  answered  by  the  same  gen-  Take  hc:d 
tleman,   That   this  might  be    the  best  Mmtmil 
way  to  do  it,  even  let,  quoth  he,  so  wa- 
Al 


194  'PRE  HGLY  WAR. 

uy  of  our  friends,  as  are  willing  (o  venture  them- 
selves for  the  promoting  of  their  prince's  cause, 
disguise  themselves  with  apparel,  change  their 
names,  and  go  into  the  market  like  far  countrymen, 
and  proffer  to  let  themselves  for  servants  to  the  fa- 
mous town  of  Mansoul,  and  let  them  pretend  to  do 
for  their  masters  as  beneficially  as  may  be,  for  by  so 
doing  they  may,  if  Mansoul  shall  hire  them,  in  a 
little  time  so  corrupt  and  defile  the  corporation,  that 
her  now  Prince  shall  be  not  on]y  further  offended 
with  them,  byt  in  conclusion  shall  spew  them  out  of 
his  mouth.  And  when  this  is  done  our  prince  Diab- 
©lus  shall  prey  upon  them  with  ease  :  yea,  of  them- 
selves they  shall  fall  into  the  mouth  of  the  eater. 

This  project  was  no  sooner  propounded  but  was 
as  highly  accepted.  And  forward  were  all  Diabo- 
lians  now  to  engage  in  so  delicate  an  enterprise  ; 
but  it  was  not  thought  fit  that  all  should  do  this, 
wherefore  the  pitched  upon  two  or  three,  namely, 
the  lord  Covetousness,  the  lord  Lasciv- 
Takchced  iousuess,  and  the  lord  Anger.  The 
Mansoul.  lord  Covetousness  called  himself  by  th# 
name  of  Prudent-thrifty ;  the  lord  Las- 
•iviousness  called  himself  by  the  name  of  Harmless- 
mirth  ;  and  lord  Anger  called  himself  by  the  name 
•f  Good-zeal. 

So  upon  a  market  day  they  came  into  the  market- 
place, three  lusty  fellows  they  were  to  look  on,  and 
ttiey  were  clothed  in  sheep's  russet,  which  was  al- 
so now  in  a  manner  as  white  as  were  the  white 
robes  of  the  men  of  Mansoul.  New  the 
Take  heed  men  could  speak  the  language  of  Man- 
jAansoul.  soul  well.  So  when  they  were  come 
into  the  market-place,  and  had  offered 
to  let  themselves  to  the  townsmen,  they  were  pre- 
sently taken  up,  for  they  asked  but  little  wages,  and 
premised  to  their  masters  great  service. 

Mr.  Mind  hi^ed   Prudent-thrifty,  and  Mr.  Godly- 
fear  hired  Good-zeal.     True,  this  fellow  Harmless- 
mirth  did  stand  a   little  on  hand,   and  could  not  so 
soon  get  him  a  master  as  the  others  did, 
Tnkchted    Jeesaase  tjte  town  ©f  Mansoul  was  n«m 


WE  HOLY  WAR.  185 

in  "Lent,  but  after  a  while,  because  Lent  Mansoul, 
was  almost  out,  the  lord  Willbewill  hired 
Harmless-mirth  to  be  both  his  waiting-man  and  his 
lacquey,  and  thus  they  got  them  masters. 

These  villains  bein^  now  got  thus  far  into  the 
houses  of  the  men  of  Manspul,  qu/ickly  began  to 
do  great  mischief  therein  ;  for  being  filthy,  arch  and 
sly,  ihey  quickly  corrupted  the  families  where  ihey 
were;  yea,  they  tainted  their  masters  much,  espe- 
cially this  Prudent-thrifty,  and  him  ihey  call  Harnfc- 
ksft- mirth.  True,  he  that  went  under  the  vizer  cf 
Good-zeal  was  not  so  well  liked  by  his  master,  for  he 
quickly  found  that  he  was  but  a  counterfeit  rascal, 
the  which  when  the  f- '!ow-perceiveci,  with  speed  he 
made  his  escape  from  t|ie  house,  or  I  doubt  not  but 
bis  muster  had  hanged  dm. 

Well,  when  these  vagabond*  had  thus  far  carried 
en    their   design,    and   l\?x\   corrupted   the  town  ;*s 
much  as  they  could,  in  tae  next  place  they  consider- 
ed with    themselves  wh  t  time  their  prince  Diabo- 
lus,  without,  and  themselves  Within  the  town  should 
make  an  attempt  to  seize  upon  Man  sou  I ;  and  they 
aii  agreed  upon  this,  that  a  market  day 
would  be  best  for  that  work  :  Ftr  why  1  A  day  of 
Then    will   the    townsmea    be  bpsy   in  worldly 
their  ways :  and  always  take  ihis  for  a  cumber,    - 
rule,  When  people  are  most  busy  in  the 
world,  they   least  fear  a  surprise.     We  also  ther^ 
said  they,  shall  be  able  ,with  less  suspicion,  to  gath- 
er ourselves  together  for  the  work  of  oar 
friends    and    lords:  yea,    and   in  such  a  Takekecd 
day,  if  we  shall  attempt  our  work,  and  MansouL 
miss  it,  we  may,   when   they  shall   give 
ns  the  rout,  the  better  hide   ourselves   in  the  croud 
and  escape 

These  things  being  thus  far  agreed  upon  by  them, 
they  wrote  another  letter  to  Diaboius,  and  selit  it 
by  the  baud  of  Mr.  Profane  ;  the  contents  of  which 
were  thus : 

The  Lords  of  Looseness   send   to  the  Look  to  it 
great  and  high  Diauoius,  from  our  MansouL 


j.9.ft  THE  HOLY  WAR.        l 

dens,  caves,  and  strong  holds,  in  and  abmit  the 
wall  of  the  town  of  Mansonl,  greeting: 

OUR  great  lord,  and  the  nourisher  of  our  lives, 
Diabolus;  how  glad  we  were  when  we  heard  of 
your  fatherhood's  readiness  to  comply  with  us,  and 
help   forward   eur  design  in  our  attempts  to  rum 

Mansoul  !  None  can  tell  but  those  whe^ 
Rom.  7.  21.  as  we  do,  set  themselves  against  all  ap- 
BaL  S.  17.  pearance  of  good,  when  and   wherefore 

we  find  it. 
Touching  the  encouragement  that  your  greatr 
Hess  is  pleased  to  give  us  to  continue  to  devise, 
contrive,  and  study  the  utter  desolation  of  Man- 
ful, that  we  are  not  solicitous  about,  for  we  know 
right  well  that  it  cannot  but  be  pleasing  and  profita- 
ble to  us  to  see  our  eaeraies,  and  them  that  seek 
our  lives,  to  die  at  our  feet,  or  fly  before  us.  We 
therefore  are  still  contriving  and  that  to  the  best  of 
our  cunning,  to  make  this  work  most  facile  and  easy 
1o  your  lordship,  and  to  us. 

First,  We  considered  of  that  most 
Leek  to  it  hellishly  cunning  compacted  threefold 
Mansottl.      project,  that  by  you  was  propounded  to 

us  in  yeur  last,  and  have  concluded, 
that  though  to  blow  them  up  with  the  gun-powder 
of  pride  would  do  well,  and  to  do  it  by  tempting 
them  to  be  loose  and  vain  will  help  on,  yet  to  con- 
trive to  bring  them  into  the  gulph  of  desperation, 
we  think  will  do  best  of  all.  Now  we,  who  are  at 
your  beck,  have  thoughts  of  two  ways  to  do  this  : 
First,  we,  for  our  parts,  will  make  them  as  vile  as 
we  can,  and  then  you  with  us,  at  a  time  appointed, 
shall  be  ready  to  fall  upon  them  with  the  utmost 
force.  And  of  all  the  nations  that  are  at  your  whis- 
tle, we  think  that  an  army  of  Doubters  may  be  the 

most  likely  to  attack  and  overcome  the 
Take  heed  town  of  Mansoul.  Thus  shall  we  over- 
MansouL      come  these   enemies,  else  the  pit  shall 

open  her  mouth  upon  them,  and  Despe- 
ration shall  thrust  them  down  int®  it.  We  have 
also,  to  etftct   this  s©  much  by  us   desired  design?; 


THE  M©LY  WAS.  197 

sent  already  three  of  our  trusty  Diabolians  among 
them,  they  are  disguised  in  garb,  they  have  chang- 
ed their  names,  and  are  now  accepted  of  them,  to 
wit,  Covetonsness,  Lasciviousness,  and  Anger. 
The  name  of  Covetousness  is  changed  to  Prudent- 
thrifty  ;  and  him  Mr.  Mind  has  hired,  and  is  al- 
most become  as  bad  as  our  friend.  Lasciviousness 
has  changed  his  name  to  Harmless-mirth,  and  he 
is  got  to  be  the  lord  Willbewilfs  lacquey,  but  he 
has  made  his  master  very  wanton.  Anger  chang- 
ed his  name  iato  Good-zeal,  and  was  entertained  by 
Mr.  Godly  fear,  but  the  peevish  old  gentleman  took 
pepper  in  the  nose,  and  turned  our  companion  out 
of  his  house.  Nay,  he  has  informed  us  since,  that 
he  ran  away  from  him,  or  else  his  old  master  had 
hanged  him  up  for  his  labour. 

Now  these  have  much  helped  forward     Look  to  it 
o*r  work  and  design  upon  Mansoul ;  for     MansouL 
notwithstanding   the   spite  and  quarrel- 
some temper  of  the  old  gentleman  last  mentioned, 
the  other  two  play  their  business  well,  arid  are  like 
to  ripen  the  work  apace. 

Our  next  project  is,  that  it  be  concluded,  that  yon 
come  upon  the  town  upon  a  market  day,  and  that 
when  they  are  upon  the  heat  of  their  business,  for 
then  to  be  sure  they  will  be  the  most  se- 
cure, and  least  think  that  an  assault  will  Take  heed 
be  made  upon  them.  They  will  also  at  Ma.isouL 
such  a  time  be  less  able  to  defend  them- 
selves, and  to  offend  you  in  the  prosecution  of  our 
design.  And  we  your  trusty  (and  we  are  sure  your 
beloved)  ones,  shall,  when  you  shall  make  your  furi- 
ous assault  without,  be  ready  to  second  the  business 
within.  So  shall  we,  in  all  likelihood,  be  able  to 
put  Mansoul  to  utter  confusion,  and  to  swallow  them 
up  before  they  can  come  to  themselves.  Ifyoup 
serpentine  heads,  (most  subtle  dragons)  and  our 
highly  esteemed  lords,  can  find  out  a  better  way 
than  this,  let  us  quickly  know  your  minds. 

To  the  monsters   of  the   infernal   cave,  from  the 
house  of  Mr.  Mischief  in  Mansoul,  by  the  haad 
*f  Mr.  Profane. 
17  * 


198  ?HE  HOLY  WAlt. 

Now  all  the  while  that  the  ravins  runagates,  and 
hellish  Diaboliar.s,  were  thus  contriving  the  ruin 
ef  the  town  of  Mansoul,  thev,  to  wit,  the  poor  town 
itself,  was  in  a  sad  and  woeful  ease,  particularly  be- 
cause they  had  so  grievously  offended 
The  sad  Shaddai  and  his  son,  and  partly  because 
state  of  that  the  enemies  thereby  got  strength 
Mansoul.  within  them  afresh,  and  also  because, 
though  they  had,  by  many  petitions, 
nr.de  suit  to  the  Prince  Emmanuel  and  to  his  father 
Shaddai,  by  him,  for  their  pardon  and  favour,  yet 
hitherto  obtained  they  not  one  smile,  but  contrari- 
wise, through  the  craft  and  subtlety  of  the  Diaboli- 
ans,  their  cloud  was  made  to  grow  blacker  and  black- 
er, and  their  Emmanuel  to  stand  at  farther  distance. 

The  siekness  also  did  still  greatly  rage  in  Man- 
seul,  both  among  the  captains  and  the  inhabitants  of 
the  town,  and  their  enemies  only  were  now  lively 
and  strong,  and  like  to  become  the  head,  whilst 
Mansoul  was  made  the  tail. 

By  this  time  the  letter  last  mentioned 
Profane  that  was  written  by  the  Diabolians  that 
arrives  at  yet  larked  in  the  town  of  Mansoul,  was 
Hellgate-  conveyed  to  Diabolus  in  the  black  den, 
hill.  by  the  hand  of  Mr.  Profane.     He  carri- 

ed the  letter  by  Hellgate-hill  as  afore, 
and  conveyed  it  by  Cerberus  to  his  lord. 

But  when  Cerberus  and  Mr.  Profane  did  meet 
they  were  presently  as  great  as  beggars,  and  thus 
ihey  fell  into  discourse  about  Mansoul,  and  about 
the  project  against  her. 

Cerberus.  Ah  !  old  friend,  art  thou  come  to  Hell- 
Sate-hill  again  ?  by  St.  Mary,  I  am  glad  to  see  thee. 

Profane.  Yes,  my  lord,  I  am  come  again  about  the 
concerns  of  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Cerberus.  Prithee  tell  me  what  condition  is  that 
town  of  Mansoul  in  at  present? 

Profane.  In  a  brave  condition  my  lord,  for  us  and 
for  my  lords,  the  lords  of  this  place  I  trow  ;  for  they 
are  greatly  decayed  as  to  godliness,  and  that  is  aa 
well  as  our  hearts  can  wish,  their  Lord  is  greatly 
•ut  with  tbera,  and  that  doth  also  please  us  well* 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  lftg 

We  have  already  also  a  foot  in  their  dish,  for  our 
Diaboiian  friends  are  laid  in  their  bosoms,  and  what 
do  we  lack  but  to  be  masters  cf  the  place.  Besides, 
our  trusty  friends  in  Mansoul  are  daily  plotting  to 
betray  it  to  the  lords  of  this  town  ;  also  the  sickness 
rages  bitterly  among  them ;  and  what  do  we  lack 
but  to  be  masters  of  the  plaxe. 

Cerberus.  Then  said  the  dog  of  Hellgate,  no  time 
like  this  to  assault  them,  I  wish  that  the  enterprise 
be  followed  close,  and  that  the  success  desired  may 
be  soon  effected  ;  yea,  I  wish  it  for  the  poor  JV.abo- 
lian's  sakes  that  lived  in  the  continual  fear  of  their 
Jives,  in  that  traitorous  town  of  Mansoul. 

Profane.  The  contrivance  is  almost  finished,  the 
lords  in  Mansoul  that  are  Diabolians  are  at  it  day 
and  night;  and  the  other  are  like  silly  doves,  they 
want  heart  to  be  concerned  with  their  state;  and  to 
consider  that  ruin  is  at  hand.  Besides  you  may,  yea, 
must  think  when  you  put  all  things  together,  that 
there  are  many  reasons  that  prevail  with  Diabolus 
to  make  what  haste  he  can. 

Cerberus.  Tkou  hast  said  as  it  is,  I  am  glad 
things  are  at  this  pass.  Go  in,  my  brave  Profane, 
to  my  lords,  they  will  give  thee  for  thy  welcome,  as 
good  a  coranlo  as  the  whole  of  this  kingdom  will 
afford.     I  have  sent  thy  letter  in  already. 

Then  Mr.  Profane  went  into  the  den,     Profane'* 
and  his  lord  Diabolus  met  him,  and  sa-     entertain* 
luted  him  with,  Welcome  my  trusty  ser-     ment. 
vant ;  1  have  been  made  glad   with  thy 
letter.     The  rest  of  the  lords  of  the  pit  gave  him  al- 
so their  salutations.     Then  Profane,  after  obeisance 
made  to  them  all,  said,  Let  Mansoul  be  given  to  my 
lord  Diabolus,  and  let  him  be  her  king  forever:  And 
■with   that  the  hollow  belly,  anil  yawning  gorge  of 
hell,  gave  so   loud  and  hideous  a  groan  (for  that  is 
the  music  of  that  place)  that  made  the  mountaini 
about  it  totter  as  if  they  would  fall  in  pieces. 

Now  after  they  had  read  and  considered  the  let- 
ter, they  consulted  what  answer  to  return,  and  the 
first  that  did  speak  to  it  was  Lucifer. 

Lucifer.    Tke  first  project  of  the  Diabolians  i* 


200  THE  HOLY  WA*. 

Mansoul  is  like  to  be  lucky,  and  to  take  . 
They  con-  to  wit,  that  they  will,  by  all  the  ways' 
stdt  what,  and  means  they  can,  wake  Mansoul  yet 
answer  to  more  vile  and  filthy  ;  no  way  to  destroy 
give  to  the  a  soul  like  this  ;  this  is  probatum  est, 
letter.  our  old  friend  and  relation  Balaam  went 

this  way  and  prospered  many  year3  ago, 
let  this  therefore  stand  with  us  for  a  maxim,  and  be 

to  Diabolians  for  a  general  rule  in  all 
Lucifer.  ages,  for  nothing  can  make  this  to  fail 
Num.  31.  but  grace,  in  which  I  would  hope  that 
16.  this  town  has  no  share.     But  whether 

Rev.  7.  14.  to  fall  upon  them  en  a  market-day,  be- 
Cumber-  cause  of  their  cumber  in  business,  that 
tnents  are  I  would  should  be  under  a  debato.  And 
dangerous,    there  is  more  reason  why  this  head  should 

be  debated  than  why  some  other  should, 
because  upon  this  will  turn  the  whole  of  what  we 
shall  attempt.  If  we  time  not  our  business  well,  our 
whole  project   may  fail.     Our  friends,  the  Dia'fcoli- 

ans,  say,  that  a  market-day  is  best  ;  for 
They  had  then  wili  Mansoul  be  most  busy,  and 
need  do  it.     have  fewest  thoughts  of  a  surprise.    But 

what  if  also  they  shall  double  their  guard 
©n  those  days,  and  me  thinks  nature  and  reason 
should  teach  them  to  do  it;  and  what  if  they  should 
keep  such  a  watch  on  those  day?,  as  the  necessity  of 
their  present  case  doth  require?  Yea,  what  if  their 
men,  should  he  always  in  arms  on  those  days?  then 
you  may,  my  lords,  be  disappointed  in  your  attempts, 
and  may  bring  out  friends  of  the  town  to  utter  dan* 
ger  of  unavoidable  ruin. 

Bedzehub.  There  is  something  in  what  my  lerd 
hath  said,  but  his  conjecture  may,  or  may  not  fall. 
Nor  hath  my  lord  laid  it  down  as  that  which  must 
not  be  receded  from,  for  I  know  that  he  said  it  only 
to  provoke  to  a  warm  debate  thereabout.  There- 
fore we  must  understand,  if  ive  can,  whether  the 
. ,  *     town  of  Mansoul  hath  such  sense  and 

A  essonjer  ^novv|e^ge  0f  |,er  decayed  state,  and  of 
Christians.    {he  deg^n  tlmt  we  have  on  foot  agRinst 

her,  as  doth  provoke  kcr  t*  set  a  watch  and  ward  at 


^H®  HOLY  WAR.  201 

her  gates,  and  to  double  them  on  market  days.  But 
if  after  enquiry  made,  it  shall  be  found  that  they  are 
asleep,  then  any  day  will  de,  but  a  market  day  is 
best ;  and  that  is  my  judgment  in  this  case. 

Diabolus,  How  should  we  know  this  ?  and  'twas 
answered,  Enquire  about  it  at  the  mouth  of  Mr.  Pro- 
fane. So  Profane  was  called  in  and  asked  theqaes- 
tion,and  he  made  answer  as  follows  : 

Profane.  My  lord,  so  far  as  I  can  ga-  Profane's 
ther,  this  is  at  present  the  condition  of  description 
the  town  of  Mansoul ;  they  are  decayed  of  tkeprcs- 
in  their  faith  and  love,  Emmanuel  their  enl  state  of 
Prince  has  given  them  the  back  :  they  Mansoul. 
•end  often  by  petition  to  fetch  kim  again, 
but  he  maketh  net  haste  to  answer  their  request ; 
nor  is  there  much  reformation  among  them. 

Diabolus.  I  am  glad  that  they  are  backward  to  a 
reformation,  but  yet  I  am  afraid  of  their  petitioning* 
However,  their  looseness  of  life  if  a  sign  that  there 
is  not  much  keart  in  what  they  do,  and  without  the 
heart,  things  are  little  worth.  But  go  on  my  mas* 
ters,  I  will  divert  you,  my  lords,  no  longer. 

Beelzebub.  If  the  ease  be  so  with  Manseul  as  Mr. 
Profane  has  described  it  fo  be,  'twill  be  no  great 
matter  what  day  we  nssauit  it,  not  their  prayers  nor 
their  power  will  do  them  much  service. 

Apoilyon.  My  opinion  concerning  this     Dreadful 
matter  is,  that  we  g©  on  fair  and  softly     advice 
not  doing    things  in  a  hurry.     Let  our     against 
friends  in  Man3oul  go  on  still  to  pollute     Mansoul, 
and  dehie  it,  by  seeking  to  draw   it  yet 
more  into  sin,  for  there  is  nothing,  nothing  like  sin 
to  devour  Mansoul.     If  this  be  done,  and   it  takes 
effect,   Mansoul  of  itself  will  leave  off  to  watch,  to 
petition,  or  any   thing  else  that  should  tend  to  her 
security  and  safety,  for  she  will   forget  her  Emma- 
nuel, she  will  not  desire  his  company ;  and  can  she 
be  gotton  thus  to  live,  her  Prince  will  not  come  to 
her  in  haste.     Our  trusty  friend  Mr.  Carnal  Secu- 
rity, with  one  of  his  tricks,  did  drive  him  out  of  the 
town,  and  why  may  not  my  lord  Covetousness  and 
my  lord  Lasciviousness,  by  what  they  may  do,  keep 


202  mv*  HOLY  WAS. 

him  out  of  thou  o?  And  this  I  will  tell  yoa,  n6t 
because  you  kna  v  it  not,  that  two  or  three  Diaboli- 
ans,  if  entertains  and  countenanced  by  the  town  of 
M»nsoul,  srifl  do  more  to  the  keeping  of  Emmanu- 
el from  them,  and  towards  making  of  the  town  of 
Mansoul  yo::rown,  than  can  an  army  of  a  legioa 
that  should  be  lent  out  from  us  to  withstand  him. 

Let  therefore  this  first  project,  that 
Dreadful  our  friends  in  Idansej!  have  set  on  foot, 
advice  a-  be  strongly  and  diligently  carried  oa, 
gainst  with  all   cunning  and  crr,ft  imaginable  ; 

Manscul.      and  let  them  send  continually,  under  one 

guise  or  another,  more  of  their  men  to 
play  with  the  people  of  mansoul ;  and  then,  per- 
haps, we  shall  not  need  to  be  at  the  charge  of  mak- 
iog  a  war  upon  them:  or,  if  that  must  of  necessity 
be  done,  yet  the  more  sinful  they  are,  the  more  un- 
able, to  be  sure,  they  will  be  to  resist  us,  and  them 
the  more  easy  we  shall  overcome  them.  And  he- 
tides,  suppose,  *nd  that  is  the  worst  that  can  be 
supposed,  that  Emmanuel  should  come  to  them 
fcgain,  why  may  not  the  same  means,  or  the  like, 
drive  him  from  them  once  more  ?  Yea,  why  may 
he  not,  by  their  lapse  into  that  sin  again,  be  drivea 
from  them  forever  for  the  sake  of  which  he  was  ed 
the  first  driven  from  them  for  a  season?  and  if  this 
should  happen,  then  away  go  with  him,  his  rams, 

his  slings,  his  captains,  his  soldiers,  and 
Dreadful  he  leaveth  Mansoul  naked  and  bare. 
adxnce  Yea,  will  not  tms  town  when  she  sees 

against  herself  utterly  forsaken  of  her  prince, 
Mansoul.      of  her   own    accord.   open-    her    gates 

again  unto  you,  and  make  of  you  as  in 
the  days  of  old;  but  this  must  be  done  by  time,  a 
few  days  will  not  effect  so  gre*»t  a  work  as  this. 

As  soon  as  Apollyoa  had  made  an  end  of  speak- 
ing, Diahoius  Vegan  to  blow  out  his  own  malice,  ar;d 
to  plead  his  own  cause,  and  he  said,  My  lord  and 
powers  of  the  cave,  my  true  and  trusty  friends,  I 
have,  with  much  impatience  as  becomes  me,  given 
ear  to  your  long  and  tedious  orations:  ;>ut  my  furi- 
©us  gorge,  and  em^ty  paunch,  so  iusteth  after  a  re- 


PHE  HOLY  WAK.  g&$ 

possession  of  my  famous  tow  a    of    Mansoul,  that 
whatever  comes  oa  it  I  can  wait  no  longer  to  see  the 
•venisof  lingering  projects.     I  m^sf,  and  that  with- 
out further  delay,  seek,  by  all  means  I   can,  to  hi! 
my    unsatiable    gulf  with  the  soul  and 
body  of  the  town  of  Mansoul.     There-  Lock  to  it 
fore   lend    me  your  heads,  your  henrt*q  Mdiueul. 
find  your  help,  now  J  am  going  to  reco- 
ver my  town   of  Mansoul. 

When  the  lords  a  \  princes  of  the  pit  saw  th?  fla- 
ming desire  that  war,  m  Diabolus,  to  devour  the  mi- 
serable town  erf  Matron!,  they  left  off  to  raise  any- 
more objections,  but.  consented  to  lend  him  what 
strength  they  could;  trough  had  ApoMyon's  advice 
been  taken,  they  bad  for  more  fearfully  distressed 
the  town  of  MansotJl.  But  I  say,  they  v  viihug 
to  lend  him  what  strength  they  could,  no  k  owing 
whai  need  they  mi  A  haws  ofhira  when  they  sho afrl 
pngagf  for  then  i*etve»,  as  he.  Wherefore  they 
fell  to  advising  toout  the  next  thing  propounded 
to  wit,  what  sol  iers  they  were,  and  a'so  now  m.iriy, 
with  whom  D'taboiae  should  go  agakret  the  town  of 
M.uisoul  to  take  it;  and  after  some  deoaie,  it  was 
concluded,  according  as  in  the  letter  t\w  Diabolianj 
had  suggested,  that  none  was  more  tit 
for  that  expedition  th-n  an  army  of  ter-  An  army 
rible  Doubters.  They  therefore  con-  of  Doubters 
eluded  to  send  against  Mansoul  an  ar-  raised  to  go 
my  of  sturdy  Doubters.  The  number  against  the 
thought  fit  to  be  employed  in  that  ser-  town  of 
▼ice  was  between  twenty  and  thirty  Mansoul* 
thousand.  So  then  the  result  of  that 
great  council  of  those  high  and  mighty  lords  was, 
that  Diabolus  should  even  now  out  of  hand,  beat  up 
his  drum  for  men  in  the  land  ©f  Doubting  f which 
land  lieth  uptm  the  confines  of  the  place  called 
Hetigate-kiti)  for  men  that  might  be  employed  by 
him  against  the  miserable  town  of  Mansoul.  It 
was  alse  concluded,  that  these  lords 
themselves  should  help  them  in  the  The princtp 
war,  and  that  they  would,  to  that  end,  of  the  pit 
head  and  manage  hi*  men*  $o  they  drew  go        mlk 


304  ^HE  HOLY  WAR. 

them.  up  a  letter,  and  sent  it  back  to  the  Bia- 

boliansthat  lurked  in  Mansoul,  and  that 
waited  for  the  back  coming  of  Mr.  Profane,  to  sig- 
nify to  them  in  what  method  and  forwardness  they 
at  present  had  put  their  design.  The  contents 
^hereof  now  falloweth. 

Erom  the  dark  and  horrible  dungeon  of 
Anotlier  hell,  Diabolus,  with  all  the  society  of 

letter  from  the  princes  of  darkness,  sends  to  our 
Diabolus  trusty  ones  in  and  about   the  walls  of 

to  the  Dia-  the  town  of  Mansoul,  now  impatient- 
tolians  in  \y  waitiug  for  our  most  devilish  an- 
J^Lanscul.  swer,  to  their  venomous  and  most  poi- 

sonous design   against   the   town    ojf 
Mansoul. 

OUR  native  ones,  in  whom  from  day  to  day  we 
boast,  and  in  whose  actions  ail  the  year  long  we  do 
greatly  delight  ourselves  :  we  received  your  wel- 
come, because  Highly  esteemed  letter,  at  the  hand 
«f  our  trusjy  and  greatly  beloved,  the  old  gentle- 
man Mr.  Profane ;  and  do  give  yoa  to  understand, 
that  when  we  had  broken  it  up,  and  had  read  the 
contents  thereof,  to  your  amazing  memory  be  it 
spoken,  our  yawning  hollow  bellied  place,  where 
we  are,  made  so  hideous  and  yelling  a  noise  for  joy 
that  the  mountains  that  staad  round  about  Heligate- 
liill,  had  like  to  have  been  shaken  to  pieces  at  the 
sound  thereof. 

We  could  also  do  no  less  than  admire  your  faith- 
ftdness  to  us,  with  the  greatness  of  that  subtlety  that 
aow  hath  shewed  itself  to  be  in  your  heads  to  serve 
us  against  the  town  ©f  Mansoul.  For  you  have  in- 
vented for  us  so  excellent  a  method  for  our  proceed- 
ing against  that  rebellious  people,  a  more  effectual 
€ne  cannot  be  thought  of  by  all  the  wits  of  hell. 
The  proposals  therefore  which  now  at  last  you  have 
sent  us,  since  we  saw  them,  we  have  done  little 
else,  but  highly  approved  and  admired  them. 

Nay,  we  shall,  to  encourage  you  in  the  profandity 
•f  you?  eraft,  let  yon  knew,  that  at  a  full  assembly 


'SHE  HOLY  WAR.  20* 

and  conclave  of  our  princes  and  principalities  of  this 
place,  your  project  was  discoursed  and  tossed  from 
one  side  of  our  cave  to  the  other  by  their  mighti- 
nesses, but  a  better,  and,  as  was  by  themselves 
judged,  a  more  fit  and  proper  way,  by  all  their  wits 
could  not  be  invented  to  surprise,  take,  and  make 
our  own,  the  rebellious  town  of  Mansoul. 

Wherefore,  in  fine,  all  that  was  said,  that  varied 
from  what  you  had  in  your  letter  propounded,  fell 
of  itself  to  the  ground,  and  yours  only  was  stuck  to 
by  Diabolus  the  prince :  yea,  his  gaping  gorge  and 
yawniag  paunch  was  on  fire  to  put  your  invention 
into  execution.  A 

We  therefore  give  you  to  understand,  that  our 
stout,  furious,  and  unmerciful  Diabolus  is  raising  for 
your  relief,  aud  the  ruin  of  the  rebellious  town  of 
Mansoul,  more  than  twenty  thousand  Doubters  to 
eome  against  that  people.  They  are  all  stout  and 
sturdy  men,  and  men  that  of  old  have  been  accust- 
omed to  war,  and  that  can  therefore  well  endure  the 
drum ;  I  say,  he  is  doing  of  this  work  of  his,  with 
all  the  possible  speed  he  can;  for  his  heart  and 
spirit  is  engaged  in  it.  We  desire  therefore,  that 
as  you  have  hitherto  stuck  to  us,  and  given  us  both 
advice  and  encouragement  thus  far,  that  you  still 
will  prosecute  our  design,  nor  shall  you  lose  but  be 
gainers  thereby ;  yea,  we  iutend  to  make  you  the 
lords  of  Mansoul. 

One  thing  may  not,  by  any  means,  be  omitted, 
that  is,  those  with  us  do  desire,  that  every  one  of 
you  that  are  in  Mansoul  would  still  use  all  your 
power,  cunning  and  skill,  with  delusive  persuasions, 
yet  to  draw  the  town  of  Mansoul  into  more  sin  and 
wickedness,  even  that  sin  may  be  finished  and  bring 
forth  death. 

For  thus  it  is  concluded  with  us,  that  the  more 
vile,  sinful,  and  debauched  the  town  of  Mansoul  is, 
the  more  backward  will  be  their  Emmanuel  to  come 
to  their  help,  either  by  presence  or  other  relief; 
yea,  the  mere  sinful  the  more  weak,  and  so  the 
more  unable  will  they  be  to  make  resistance,  when 
*r«  shall  make  our  assault  upon  tkem  to  swaRoTf 
18 


20  G  ME  HOLY  WAR. 

them  up ;  yea,  that  raay  cause  that  their  mighty 
Shaddai  himself  may  cast  them  out  of  his  protec- 
tion, yea,  and  semi  for  his  captains  and 
Take  heed  soldiers  home,  with  his  slings  and  rams, 
Mansoul.  and  leave  them  naked  and  hare,  and 
then  the  town  of  Mansoul  will,  of  itself, 
open  to  us,  and  fall  as  a  fig  into  the  mouth  of  the 
cater;  yea,  to  be  sure,  we  then  shall,  with  a  great 
deal  of  ease,  come  upon  her  and  overcome  her. 

As  to  the  time  of  our  coming  upon  Mansoul,  we 
as  yet  have  not  fully  resolved  upon  that,  though  at 
present  some  of  us  think  as  you,  that  a  market-day, 
©r  a  market-day  at  night,  will  certainly  be  the  best, 
However,  do  you  be  ready,  and  when 
1  Pet.  5.  8.  you  shall  hear  our  roaring  drum  without 
do  you  be  as  busy  to  make  the  most  hor- 
rible confusion  within :  so  shall  Mansoul  certainly 
be  distressed  before  and  behind,  and  shall  not  know 
which  way  to  betake  herself  for  help.  My  lord 
Lucifer,  my  lord  Beelzebub,  my  ,lord  Apollyon,  my 
lord  Legion,  with  the  rest  salute  you,  as  does  also 
my  lord  Biabolus  ;  and  we  wish  both  you,  with  all 
that  you  do  or  shall  possess,  the  very  self-same  fruit 
and  success  for  yeur  doings,  as  we  ourselves  at  pres- 
ent enjoy  for  ours. 

From  our  dreadful  confines  in  the  jnost  fearful  pit^ 
we  salute  you,  and  so  do  tfiose  many  legions 
lie^  with  us,  wishing  you  may  be  as  hellishly 
prosperous  as  we  desire  to  be  ourselves.  By 
the  letter  carrier,  Mr.  Profane. 

Then  Mr.  Profane  addressed  himself  for  his  return 
to  Mansoul,  with  his  errand  from  the  horrible  pit, 
to  the  Diabolians  that  dwelt  in  that  town.  So  he 
came  up  the  stairs  from  the  deep  to  the  mouth  of 
the  cave  where  Cerberus  was.  Now  when  Cerbe- 
rus saw  him  he  asked  how  matters  did  go  below, 
about,  and  against  the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Profane.  Things  go  as  well  as  we  can  expect. 
The  letter  that  I  carried  thither  was  highly  approv- 
ed, and  well  liked  by  all  my  lords,  and  I  am  return- 
ing to  tell  our  Diabolians  so.    I  have  an  answer  t* 


SHE  HOLY  WAS.  2^7 

it  here  in  my  bosam,  that  I  am  sure  will  make  our 
masters,  that  seat  me,  glad  ;  for  the  contents  there- 
of is  to  encourage  thern  to  pursue  their  design  to 
the  utmost,  and  to  be  ready  also  to  fall  on  within 
when  they  shall  see  my  lord  Diabolus  beleaguering 
the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Cerberus.  But  does  he  intend  to  go  against  them 
himself? 
The  land  Profane.  Does  he !  Ay  and  he  will 
from  the  take  along  with  him  more  than  twenty 
which  the  thousand,  all  sturdy  Doubters,  and  men 
Doubters  of  wrar,  piek'd  men,  from  the  men  of 
come.  Doubting  to  serve  him  in  the  expedi- 

tion. 

Cerberus.  Then  was  Cerberus  glad,  and  said, 
And  are  there  such  brave  preparations  a  making., 
to  go  against  the  miserable  town  of  Mansoul ;  and 
would  I  might  be  put  at  the  head  of  a  thousand  of 
them,  that  I  might  also  shew  my  valour  against  the 
famous  town  of  Mansoul. 

Profane.  Your  wish  may  come  to  pass,  you  look 
like  one  that  has  mettle  enough,  and  my  lord  will 
have  with  him  those  that  are  valiant  and  stout.  But 
my  business  requires  haste. 

Cerberus.  Ay,  so  it  does.  Speed  thee  to  the  town 
of  Mansoul,  with  all  the  deepest  mischiefs  that  this 
place  can  afford  thee.  And  when  thou  shalt  come 
to  the  house  of  Mr.  Mischief,  the  place  where  the 
Diabolians  meet  to  plot,  tell  them  that  Cerberus 
doth  wish  them  his  service,  and  that  if  he  may,  he 
will,  with  the  army,  come  up  against  the  famous 
town  of  Mansoul. 

Prqfam.  That  I  will ;  and  I  know  that  my  lord* 
that  are  ik^r^  will  he  glad  to  hear  it,  and  to  see  you 
also. 

So  after  a  few  more  such  kind  of  compliments, 
Mr.  Profane  took  his  leave  of  his  friend  Cerberus, 
and  Cerberus  again,  with  a  thousand  of  the  pit  wish* 
es,  Kd  him  haste  with  ail  speed  to  his  masters;  the 
which  when  he  had  heard,  he  made  obeisance,  and 
began  to  gather  up  his  heels  to  ruu. 

Tbas  therefore  he  returned,  and  wc«4  and  came 


2*8  ^HE  HOLY  WAR. 

io  Mansoul ;  and  going,  as  afore,  to  the  house  of 
Mr.  Mischief,  there  he  found  the  Diabolians  assem- 
bled, and  waiting  for  his  return.  Now 
Prefane  when  he  was  come,  and  had  presented 
returneth  himself,  he  also  delivered  to  them  his 
again  to  letter,  and  adjoined  this  compliment  to 
Mansotd.  them  therewith:  my  lords  from  the con- 
fines of  the  pit,  the  high  and  mighty 
principalities  and  powers  of  the  den  salute  you  here, 
the  true  Diabolians  of  the  town  of  Mansoul.  Wish- 
ing you  always  the  most  proper  of  the  benediction*, 
for  the  great  service,  high  attempts,  and  brave  a- 
chievements  that  you  have  put  yourselves  upon,  for 
the  restoring  to  our  prince  Diabolus  the  famous 
town  of  Mansoul. 

This  was  therefore  the  present  state  of  the  miser- 
able town  of  Maasou!  9  she  had  offended  her  Prince, 
and  he  was  gone  ;  she  had  encouraged  the  powers 
of  hell  by  her  foolishness,  to  come  against  her  to 
seek  her  utter  destruction. 

True,  the  town  of  Mansoul  was  somewhat  made 
sensible  of  her  sin,  but  the  Biabolians  were  gotten 
into  her  bowels ;  she  cried,  but  Emmanuel  was 
gone,  and  her  cries  did  nat  fetch  him  as  yet  again. 
Besides,  she  knew  cot  whether  ever  or  Hever  he 
would  return  and  come  to  his  Mansoul  again;  nor 
iVul  they  know  the  power  and  industry  of  the  ene- 
my, nor  how  forward  they  were  to  put  in  execution 
that  plot  of  nell  that  they  had  devised  against  her. 

They  did  indeed  still  send  petition  alter  petition 
to  the  Prince,  but  he  answered  all  with  silence. 
They  did  neglect  reformation,  and  that  was  as  Di- 
abolus would  have  it ;  for  he  knew*  that  if  they  re- 
garded iniquity  in  their  hearts,  their  King  would 
not  hear  their  prayers  ;  they  therefore  did  still  grow 
weaker  and  weaker,  and  were  as  a  rolling  thing  be- 
fore the  whirlwind.  They  cried  to  their  King  for  help, 
and  laid  Diabolians  in  their  bosom,  what  therefore 
should  a  King  do  to  them  ?  Yea  there  seemed  now 
to  be  a  mixture  in  Mansoul,  the  Diabolians  and  tjie 
Mansouiians  would  walk  the  streets  together :  yea, 
th«y  began,  to  seek  their  pea,ee,    far  they  thought 


1HB  HOLY  W^AR.  20* 

that  since  the  sickness  had  been  so  mortal  in  Man- 
soul,  'twas  in  vain  to  go  to  handgrips  with  them  ; 
besides,  the  weakness  of  Mansoul  was  the  strength 
of  their  enemies,  and  the  sins  of  Mansoul  the  ad- 
yantage  of  the  Diabolians.  The  foes  of  Mansoul 
did  also  now  begin  to  promise  themselves  the  town 
for  a  possession,  there  was  no  great  difference  now 
betwixt  Mansoulians  and  Diabolians, 
both  seemed  to  be  masters  of  Mansoul ;  GoodtMts, 
yea,  the  Diabolians  increased  and  grew,  good  con- 
hut  the  town  of  Mansoul  diminished  ccptions,  Sz 
greatly.  There  was  more  than  eleven  gooddcsires 
thousand  of  men,  women,  and  children, 
that  died  by  the  sickness  in  Mansoul. 

But  now,  as  Shaddai  would  have  it,  there  was  one 
whose  name   was  Mr.  Prywell,  a  great  lover  of  the 
people  of  Mansoul ;  and  he,  as  his  manner  was,  did 
go  listening  up  and  down  in  Mansoul  to 
see  and  hear,  if  at  any  time  he  might,     The  story 
whether  there  was  any  design  against  it,     of       Mr. 
or  no;  for  he  was  always  a  jealous  man,     Prywell. 
and    feared  some    mischief   some    time 
would   befal  him,  either  from  the  Diabolians  within, 
or  from  some  power  without.     Now  upon   a  time  it 
so  happened,  as  Mr.  Prywell  went  listening  here  and 
there,  that  he  lighted  upon  a  place  cal- 
led Vilehill  in  Mansoul,  where  Diaboli-  TheDiabo- 
ans  used  to  meet ;  so  hearing  a  muttering  Hans"    plot 
(you  must  know  that  it  was  in  the  night)  discovered 
he  softly  drew  near  to  hear  ;  nor  had  he 
stood   long  under  the   house  end,  for  there  stood   a 
house  there,   but  he  heard   one  confidently   affirm, 
that  it  was  not,  and  would  not  be  long  before  Dia- 
bolus  should  possess  himself  again  of  Mansoul,   and 
that  then  the  Diabolians  did  intend  to  put  all  Man- 
soulians to  the  sword ;  and  would  kill  and  destroy 
the  King's  captainSj  and  drive  all  his  soldiers  out  of 
the  town. 

He  said  moreover,  that  he  knew  there  was  above 
twenty  thousand  fighting  men  prepared  by  Diabolua 
for  the  accomplishing  of  this  design,  and 
that  it  would  not  be  many  months  be-  Under- 
18  * 


$\+  mm  HOLY  1TAK. 

standing  fore  they  all  should  see  it.  When  Mr* 
conscience.  Pryweil  had  heard  this  story,  he  did 
quickly  believe  it  was  true,  wherefore 
he  went  forthwith  to  my  lord  mayor's  house,  and 
acquainted  hira  therewith,  wh©  sending  for  the  sub- 
ordinate preacher,  brake  the  business  to  him :  and 
he  as  soon  gave  the  alarm  to  the  town ;  for  he  was 
now  the  chief  preacher  in  Mausoul,  be* 
Tkt  Sub-  cause  as  yet  my  lord  Secretary  was  ill 
ordinate  at  ease ;  and  this  was  the  way  that  the 
preacher  subordinate  preacher  did  take  to  alarm 
awakened,  the  town  therewith.  The  same  hour  he 
caused  the  lecture  bell  to  be  rung,  so  the 
people  came  together,  he  gave  them  then  a  short  ex- 
tortion to  watchfulness,  and  made  Mr.  Pry  well's 
news  the  argument  thereof.  For,  said  he,  an  horri- 
ble plot  is  contrived  against  Mansoul,  even  to  mas- 
sacre us  all  in  a  day  ;  nor  is  this  story  to  be  slighted, 
for  Mr.  Prywell  is  the  author  thereof.  Mr.  Prywell 
was  always  a  lover  of  Mansoul,  a  sober  and  judicious 
man,  a  man  that  is  no  tatler,  nor  raiser  of  false  re- 
ports, but  one  that  loves  to  look  into  the  very  bot- 
tom of  matters,  and  talks  nothing  of  news  but  by 

very  solid  arguments. 
Prywell  I  will  call  him,  and  you  shall  hear  hira 

tells  his  y©ur  own  selves  ;  so  he  called  him  and 
news  te  he  came  and  told  his  tale  so  punctual, 
Mansovl.      and  affirmed   its  truth  with  such  ample 

grounds,  that  Mansoul  fell  presently  un- 
«ter  a  conviction  of  the  truth  of  what  he  said.  The 
preacher  did  also  back  him,  snying,  Sirs,  it  is  not  ir- 
rational for  us  to  believe  it,  for  we  have  provoked 
Shaddai  to  aager,  and  have  sinned  Emmanuel  out  of 
the  town :  we  have  had  too  much  correspondence 
with  Diabolians,  and  have  forsaken  our  former  mer- 
cies $  no  marvel  then,  if  the  enemy,  both  within  and 

without,  should  design  and  plot  our  ru- 
Gocd  de-  in;  and  what  time  like  this  to  do  it  ? 
sires.  The  sickness  is  now  in   the   town,  and 

we  have  been  made  weak  thereby.— 
Many  «  good  meaning  man  is  dead,  and  the  Diabsn 
4ims  «f  late  grew  stronger  and  stronger. 


TOOK  HOLY' WAR.  211 

Besides,  quoth  the  subordinate   preacher,   I  h  ve 
received  from  this  good  truth-feller,  this  one  inkling 
further,  thut   he    understood    by    those 
that  he  overheard,  th.it  several    letter*  TJieyiak* 
have  lately  passed  between  the  Funics  ike  alarm,, 
and   the    Biabolians,   in    order   to   our 
destruction.     When  Mansoul  heard  ail  this,  and  not 
being  able  to  gainsay  it,  they  lift  up  their  voice  and 
wept.     Mr.  Pryweli  did  also,  in  the  presence  of  the 
townsmen,  confirm  all  thai  their  subordinate  preach- 
er had  said.  Wherefore  thej  iiow  set  afresh  to  bewail 
their  folly,  and   to  a  doubling  of   petiti- 
ons to  Shaddai  and  his  son.     They  also  They      tell 
break  the  business  to  the  captains,   high  the      Hung 
commanders,  and    men  of  war,    in  the  to  the  cap- 
town  of  Mansoul,  entreating  of  them  to  tains. 
use  the  means  to  be  strong,  and  to  take 
good  courage,  and  that  they  would  look  after  their 
harness,  and  make  themselves  ready  to  give  Diabo- 
lus  battle  by  night  or  by   day,  should  he  come,  as 
they  are  informed  he  will,  to  beleaguer  the  town  of 
Mansoul. 

When  the  captains  heard  this  (they  being  always 
true  lovers  of  the  town  of  Mansoul  )  what  do  they, 
but  like  so  many  Sampsons  they  shake  themselves, 
and  come  together  to  consult  and  con- 
trive then  how  to  defeat  those  bold  and  They  come 
hellish  contrivances  that  were  upon  the  together    to 
wheel,  by  the    means  of  Diabolus  and  consult, 
his  friends,   against    the    now  sickly, 
weakly,  and  much  impoverished  town  of  Mansotrt  ^ 
and  they  agreed  upen  these  following  particulars. 

1.  That  the  gates  of  Mansoul  should 
be  kept  shut  up,  and  made  fast  with  bars  The  agrei- 
and  locks,  and  that  all  persons  that  went  mcnU 
out  or  came  in,  should  be  very  strictly  1  Cor.  16. 
examined  by  the  captains  of  the  guards, 
to  the  end,  said  they,  that  those  that  are  managers 
of  the  plot  against  us  may,  either  com- 
ing or  going,  be  taken  ;  and  that  wc  may  Lam.  3. 40. 
also  find  out  who  are  the  great  contriv- 
ers amongst  its  of  our  ruin. 


212  Tfifi  HOLY  WAR. 

2.  The  next  thing  was,  that  a  strict  search  should 
be  made  for  all  kind  of  Diabolians  throughout  the 
wtiole  town  of  Mansoul  ;  and  that  every  man's 
house,  from  top  to  bottom,  should  be  looked  into, 
and  that  too,  house  by  house,  that,  if  possible,  a  fur- 
ther discovery  might  be  made  of  all  suck 
Heb.  12.  among  them  as  had  a  hand  in  these  de- 
13,  Id.         signs. 

3.  It  was  further  concluded  upon, 
Jcr.  2.  34.  that  wheresoever,  or  with  whomsoever 
Chron.  5.  any  of  the  Diabolians  were  found,  that 
2(5.  even  those  of  the  town  of  Mansoul  that 

Ezek*  16.      had    given    them    hoi^e   and    harbour, 
12,  should,   to  their  sham£,  and  warning  of 

others,  do  penance  in  the  open  place. 

4.  It  was  moreover  resolved  by  the  famous  town 
•f  Mansoul,  that  a  public  fast,  and  a  day  of  humili- 
ation should  be  kept  through  the   whole 

Joel.  1.  14.  corporation,  to  the  justifying  of  their 
chap.  2.  Prince,  the  abusing  of  themselves  before 
15,  It).  him,  for  their  transgressions  against  him 
and  sgainst  Shaddai  his  father.  It  was 
further  resolved,  that  all  such  in  Mansoul  as  did  not 
on  that  day  endeavour  to  keep  that  fast,  and  to  hum- 
ble themselves  for  their  faults,  but  that  should  mind 
tbeir  worldly  employments,  or  be  found  wandering 
•p  and  down  the  streets,  should  be  taken  for  Diabo- 
lians, and  should  suffer  as  Diabolians  for  such  their 
wicked  doings. 

5.  It  was  further  concluded  then  that  with  what 

speed,  and  with  what  warmth  of  mind 
Jer.  37.  4.  they  could,  they  would  renew  their  hu- 
miliation for  sin,  and  their  petition  te 
Shaddai  for  help  ;  they  also  resolved  to  send  tidings 
to  the  court  of  all  that  Mr.  Pry  well  had  told  them. 
6.  It  was  also  determined,  that  thanks 
Mr.  Pry-  should  be  given  by  the  town  of  Mansoul 
well  is  to  Mr.  Pry  well,  for  his  diligent  seeking 
made  scout  of  the  wellfare  of  the  town  ;  and  further, 
master  gen-  that  for  as  much  as  he  was  so  naturally 
er&l.  inclined  to  seek  their  good,  and  also  to 

•ndermine  their  fees,  they  gave  him  a 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  218 

commission  of  seeut  master  general,  for  the  gpod  of 
the  town  of  Mansoul. 

When  the  corporation,    with  their  captains,  had 
thus  concluded,  they  did  as  they  had  said ;  they  shut 
up   their  gates ;  they  made   for  Diaholians,  strict 
search  ;  they  made  those  with  whom  any  was  found 
to  ra  ike  penance   in  the  open    plaee.     They  kept 
their    fast,  and   renewed   their    petitions    to   their 
Prince  ;  and  Mr,  Prywell  managed  his   charge,  and 
the  trust  that  Mansoul  pat  into  his  hands, 
with  great  conscience  and  good  fidelity  ;  Mr.     Try- 
for  he  gave  himself  wholly  up  to  his  em-  well  goes  a 
ploy,  and  that  not  only  within  the  town,  scouting. 
but  he  went  out  to  pry,  to  see,  and  to 
hear. 

And  not  many  days  after,  he  provided  for  his  jour- 
ney, and  went  towards  Hellgate-hill,  into  the  coun- 
try where  the  Doubters  were,  where  he  heard  of 
all  that  had  bean  talked  of  in  Mansoul,  and  he  per- 
ceived also,  that  Diabolus  was  most  ready  for  his 
inarch,  &c.  so  he  came  back  with  speed,  and  calling 
the  captains  aad  elders  of  Mansoul  together,  he  told 
them  where  he  tad  been,  what  he  had  heard,  and 
what  he  had  seen. 

Particularly,  he  told  them,   That  Di- 
abolic was  almost  ready   for  his  march,  He  returns 
and  that  he  had  made  old  Mr.  Incredu-  with   great 
lity,  that  once  brake  prisen  in  Mansoul,  news. 
the  general  of  his   army  ;  that  his  army 
consisted  all  of  Doubters,  and  that  their  number  was 
above  twenty  thousand.     Ke    told  moreover,  that 
Diabolus  did    intend  to  bring   with   him  the    chief 
princes  of  the  infernal  pit,  and  that  he  would  make 
them  chief  captaius  over  his    Doubters.     He  told 
them  moreover,  that  it  was  certainly  true,  that  sev- 
eral of  the  black  den  would,  with  Diabolus,  ride  re- 
formadoes,    to  reduce    the   town  of  Mansoul  to  the 
obedience  of  Diabolus  their  prince. 

He  said,  moreover,  that  he  understood  by  the 
Doubters,  among  whom  he  had  been,  that  the  rea- 
son why  old  Incredulity  was  made  general  of  the 
whole  army  was,  because  none  truer  than  he  to  the 


214  2¥ra  HOLY  WAR; 

tyrant ;  and  because  he  had  an  implacable  spite  a* 
gainst  the  welfare  of  the  town  of  Mansoul.  Besides, 
said  he,  he  remembers  the  affronts  that  Mansoul  has 
given,  and  he  is  resolved  to  be  revenged  of  them. 

But  the  black  princes  shall  be  made  high  com- 
manders, only  Incredulity  shall  be  over  tbem  ail, 
because  (which  1  had  almost  forgo!)  he  can  more 
easily,  and  more  dextrpusly  beleaguer  the  town  of 
Mansoul,  than  can  any  of  the  princes  besides. 

Now  when  the  captains  of  Mansoul,  with  the  el- 
ders of  the  town,  had  heard  the  tidings  that  Mr- 
Prywell  did  bring,  they  thought  it  expedient,  with- 
out further  delay,  to  put  into  execution  the  laws 
that,  against  the  Diabolians,  their  Prince  had  made 
for  them,  and  given  them  in  commandment  to  ma- 
nage against  them.  Wherefore  forthwith  a  diligent 
and  impartial  search  was  made  in  all  houses  in 
Mansoul,  for  ail  and  all  manner  of  Dia- 
Scme  Dia-  boiianff.  Now  in  the  house  of  Mr. 
boliam  Mind,  and  in  the  house  of  the  great  lord 

taken  in  Willbewill,  were  two  Diobolians  found. 
Mansoul  In  Mr.  Mind's  house  was  one  lord  Cov- 
and commit-  etousness  found,  but  he  had  changed  his- 
ted  topris-  name  to  Prudent-thrifty:  In  my  lord 
*n.  WHIbewill's   house  one  Lasciviousness 

was  found,  but  he  had  changed  his  name 
to  Harmless-mirth.     These    two,    the  captains  an4 
Riders  of  the  town  of  Mansoul   took,  and  committed 
them  to  custody,   under   the  hand  of  Mr.  Trueman 
the  jailor;  and  this  man  handled  them 
The    lord    so  severely,   and    loaded  them  so  well 
Willbewill    with  irons,  that  in  time  they  both  fell 
and    Mr.     into  a  very  deep  consumption,  and  died 
Mind    do    in  the  prison  house :  their  masters  also, 
penanee.        according  to  the  agreement  of  the  cap- 
tains and  elders,  were  brought  to  da  pen- 
ance in  the  open  place,  to  their   shame,  and  for  a 
warning  to  the  rest  of  the  town  of  MansouL 

Now  this  was  the  manner  of  penance 

Penance.       in  those  days.     The  persons  offending 

what.  being  made  sensible  of  the  evil  of  their 

doings,  were  enjoined  id  do  open  ce»- 


»«5  HOLY  WAR,  215> 

fession  ef  their  faults,  and  a  strict  examination  of 
their  lives. 

After  this,  the  captains  and  elders  of  Mansoul 
sought  yet  to  find  out  more  Diabolians  wherever 
they  lurked,  whether  in  dens,  caves,  holes,  vaults, 
or  where  e'se  they  could,  in,  or  abont  the  wall  or 
town  of  Mansoul.  But  though  they  could  plainly 
see  their  footing,  and  so  follow  them  by  their  track 
anl  smell  to  their  holds,  even  to  thfc  mouths  of 
their  caves  and  dens,  yet  take  them,  hold  them 
and  do  justice  upon  them,  they  could  not ;  their 
ways  wer*  so  crooked,  their  holds  so  strong,  and 
they  so  quick  to  take  sanctuary  there. 

B'j-t  Mansoul  did  now,  with  so  stiff  an  hand,  rule 
over  the  Diabolians  that  were  left,  that  they  were 
glad  to  shrink  iieto  corners  :  time  was  when  they 
durst  walk  openly,  and  in  the  day,  but  now  they 
were  forced  to  p*i  brace  privacy  and  the  night  ; 
time  was  when  a  Mansoulian  was  their  companion, 
but  now  they  counted  them  deadly  enemies.  This 
good  change  did  Mr.  Pry  well's  intelligence  make 
in  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul. 

By   tkis  time  Diabolus   had  finished  his  army ; 
which  he  intended  to  bring  with  him  for  the   ruin 
of  Mansoul,  and  had   set  over  them  captains  and 
other  field   officers,  such  as  liked  his  furious  sto- 
mach   best;    himself  was   Lord    Para- 
amount.      Incredulity    was    general  of  Diabolus's 
his   army,    their  highest   captains  shall  army. 
be    named     afterwards;    byt    now    for 
their  officers,  colours,  and  'scutcheons. 

1.  Their  first  captain  was  captain  Rage,  he  wag 
captain  over  the  Election  doubters,  his 

were    the    red    eolours,     his    standard  Rev.    12, 

bearer   was    Mr,    Destructive,  and  the  3,  4,  13. 

great  rod  dragon  he  had  for  his  'scutcheon.  15,  1 7. 

2.  The  second  captain   was   captain 

Fury,  he  was  captain  over  the  Vocation  Num.  21. 
doubters,   his  standard-bearer    was   Mr.  6. 
Darkness,    his  colours   were    hose  that 
were  pale,  and   he  bad  for  hi*  'scutcheon  the  fiery 
lying  serpent* 


216  EHE  HOLY  \TA*. 

3.  The  third  captain  was  captain 
Mat  3.  Damnation,  he  was  captain  over  the 
22,  23.  Grace  doubters,  his  were  the  red  c©l- 
Rcv.  9.  1.      ours.  Mr.  No-life  bare  (hem,  and  he  had 

for  his  'scutcheon  the  black  den. 
4.  The  fourth  captain  was  captain  Insatiable,  he 

was  captain  over  the  Faith-doubters, 
Prov.  2.  7.  his  were  the  red  colours,  Mr  Devour- 
20.  er  bare  them,  and  he  had  for  his  'scutch- 

eon the  yawning  jaws. 
Psal.  11.6.       5.    The    fifth  captain  was    captain 
Rev.  14.       Brimstone,    he   was  captain    over  the 
11.  Perseverance-doubters,  his  were  the  red 

colours,  Mr.  Burning  bare  them,  and  his 
Scutcheon  was  the  blue  and  stinking  flame. 

5,  The  sixth  captain  was  captain 
Mr  a  9.  44.  Torment,  he  was  captain  over  the  Res- 
4§.  48.         urrec;  ion-doubters,     his     colours    were 

those  that  were  pale,  Mr.  Gnaw  was  his 
standard-bearer,  and  he  had  the  black  worm  for  his 

'scutcheon. 
Rev.  4.  11.       7.  The  seventh  captain  was  captain 
ehap.  6.  8.  No-ease,  he  was  captain  over  the  Salva- 
tion doubters,  his   were  fhe  red  colours, 
Mr.  Restless  bare  them,  and  his  'scutcheon  was  the 

ghastly  picture  of  death. 
Jer.  15. 16.       8.  The  eighth  captain  was  captain 
chap.  2. 25.  Sepulchre,    he  was  captain   over    the 

Glory-doubters,  his  were  the  pale  col- 

©urs,  Mr.  Corruption  was  his  standard-bearer,  and  he 

bail  for  his  'scutcheon  a  scull,  and  dead  men's  bones. 

9.  The  ninth  captain  was  captain  Past-hope,  he 

was  captain  of  those  that  are    called   the  Felicity- 

1  T'       4      doubters,   h*s   standard-bearer   was  Mr. 

«         *     *     Despair,  his  also  were  the   red  colours, 

„*        0  c     and  his  'scutcheon  was  the  hot  iron  and 
Rom.  2.  5.    the  hard  hsart 

These  were  the  captains,  and  these  were  their 
forces,  these  were  their  standards,  these  were  thei* 
colours,  these  were  their 'scutcheons.  Now  over 
these  did  the  great  Diabolus  make  superior  cap- 
tains, and  they  were  in  number  seven :  as  namely* 


THE  HOLY  WAIt.  217 

the  lord  Beelzebub,  the  lord  Lucifer,  the  lord  Le- 
gion, the  lord  Apollyon,  the  lord  Python,  the  lord 
Cerberus,  and  the  lord  Belial ;  these  seven  he  set 
over  the  captains,  and  incredulity  was  lord  general, 
and  Diabolus  was  king. 

The  Reformadoes,  also  such  as  were 
like    themselves,  were   made    some  of  Diabolus' s 
them  captains  of  hundreds,  and  some  of  army   com- 
thern  captains  of  more ;  and    thus^  was  pleted. 
the  army  of  Incredulity  completed. 

So  they  set  out  at  Hellgate-hill  (for  there  they 
had  their  rendezvous)  from  whence  they  came  with 
a  straight  course  upon  their  march  towards  the 
town  of  Mansoul.  Now  as  we  hinted  before,  the 
town  had,  as  Shaddai  would  have  it,  received  from 
the  mouth  of  Mr.  Pryvvell,  the  alarm  of  their  com- 
ing before.  Wherefore  they  set  a  strong  watch  at 
the  gates,  and  had  also  doubled  their  guards ;  they 
also  mounted  their  slings  in  good  places,  where 
they  might  conveniently  cast  out  their  great  stones 
to  the  annoyanee  of  the  furious  enemy. 

Nor  could  those  Diabolians  that  were  in  the 
town  do  that  hurt  as  was  designed  they  should;  for 
Mansoul  war  now  awake.  But  alas !  poor  people, 
they  were  sorely  affrighted  at  the  first  appearance 
of  their  foes,  and  their  sitting  down  be- 
fore the  town,  especially  when  they  I  Pet  5.  8. 
heard  the  roaring  of  their  drum.  This 
to  speak  truth,  was  amazingly  hideous  to  hear,  it 
frighted  all  men  seven  miles  round,  if  they  were  but 
awake  and  heard  it.  The  streaming  of  their  ca- 
lours  wrere  also  terrible  and  dejecting  to  behold. 

When  Diabolus  was  come  against  the 
town,  first  he  made  hi3  approach  to  Ear-  He  makes 
gate,  and  gave  it  a  furious   assault,   sup-  an   assault 
posing    (as  it  seems)   that  his  friends  in  upon  Ear- 
Mansoul  had  been  ready  to  do  the  work  gate  and  is 
within,  but  care  was    taken  of  that  be-  repelled.       i 
fore,  by  the  vigilance   of  the  captains. 
Wherefore  missing  of  that  help    that   he  expected 
from    them,    and     finding    of    his     army    warmly 
attended  with  the  stones  that  the  slingeis  did  siiugf 
19 


215  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

He  re-  (for  that  I  will  say  for  the  captains,  that 

treats  and  considering  the  weakness|that  wasjyetup- 
intrenches  on  them,  by  reason  of  the  long  sickness, 
himself.  that  had  annoyed  the  town  of  Mansoul, 
Jam.  4.  7.    they   did  gallantly    behave  themselves) 

he  was  forced  to  make  some  retreat  from 
Mansoul,  and  to  intrench  himself  and  his  men  in  the 
field,  without  the  reach  of  the  slings  of  the  town. 

Now  having  intrenched  himself,  he 
He  easts  did  cast  up  four  mounts  against  the 
up  mounts  town;  the  first  he  called  mount  Diai*o- 
against  the  lus,  putting  his  name  thereon,  the  more 
town.  to   affright   the    town  of  Mansoul ;  the 

other  tnree  he  called  thus,  mount  Alec- 
to,  mount  Mengre,  and  m@unt  Tisiphane,  for  these 
are  the  names  of  the  dreadful  furies  of  hell.  Thus 
he  began  to  play  his  game  with  Mansoul,  and  to 
serve  it  as  doth  the  lion  his  prey,  even  to  make  it 
fall  before  its  terror.  But,  as  I  said,  the  captains  and 
soldiers  resisted  so  stoutly,  and  did  so  much  execu- 
tion with  their  stones,  that  they  made  him,  (tho* 
against  his  stomach)  to  retreat,  wherefore  Mansoul 

began  to  take  courage. 
Diabolus's        Now    upon   mount  Diabolus,  whick 
standard      was  raised  on  the  north  side  of  the  town, 
set  up  there  did  the  tyrant  set  up  his  standard, 

and  a  fearful  thing  it  was  to  behold,  for 
he  had  wrought  in  ii  by  devilish  art,  after  the  man- 
ner of  an  'scutcheon,  a  flaming  flame,  fearful  to  be- 
hold, and  the  picture  of  Mansoul  burning  in  it. 

When  Diabolus  had  thus  done,  he  commanded 
that  his  drummer  should,  every  night  approach  the 
walls  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  so  beat  a  parley  ; 
the  command  was  to  do  it  every  night,  for  in  the 
«iay  time  they  annoyed  him  with  their  slings  ;  for  the 
tyrant  said,  that  he  had  a  mind   to  parley  with  the 

now  trembling  town  of  Mansoul,  and  he 
He  bidshis  commanded  that  4he  drum  should  beat 
drummer  every  night,  that  through  weariness 
to  beat  they  might  at  last,  if  possible  (at  the 
fcfe  drum      first  they  were  unwilling)  yet  be  forced 

t*  do  it. 


TOB  HOLY  WAR-  219 

So  this  drummer  did  as  commanded, 
he  arose   and   did  beat  his  drum  ;  but  Mansoul 
when  his  drum  did  go,  one  laoked   to-  trembles  ah 
ward    the    town  of  Mansoul,  "  Behold  the  noise  of 
darkness  and  sorrow,  and  the  ligkt  was  the  drum. 
darkened  in  the  heaven    thereof."     No  I&a.  5.  30. 
noise  was  ever  heard  upon  earth    more 
terrible,  except  the  voice  of  Shaddai  when  bespeak- 
eth.     But  how  did  Mansoul   tremble  !  It  now  look- 
eth  for  nothing  but  forthwith  to  he  swallowed  u: ?. 

When  this  drummer  had  beaten  for  a 
parley,   he  made   his  speech    to    Man-  Diabolus 
soul,  "  My  master  has   bid  me  tell  you,  calls  back 
that   if  ye  will  willingly  submit,  you  his  drum. 
shall  have  the  good  of  the  earth  ;  but  if 
you  shall  be  stubborn,  he  is  resolved  to  take  yo'A  by 
force."     But  by  that  the  fugitive   had  done  beating 
of  his   drum,  the    people  of  Mansoul   had  betrayed 
themselves  to   the  captains  that  were  in  the  castle> 
so  that  there  were  none  to  regard,   nor  to  give  this 
drummer   an    answer,  so   he  proceeded  no  further 
that  night,  but  returaed  again  to  his  master  to  the 
camp.  * 

When  Diabolus  saw  that  by  drumming  he  could 
not  work  out  Mansoul  to  his  will,  the  next  night  he 
sendeth  his  drummer  without  his  drum,  still  to  let 
the  townsmen  know  that  he  had  a  mind  to  parley 
with  them :  but  when  all  came  to  all,  his  parley  was 
turned  into  a  summons  to  the  town  to  deliver  up 
themselves  ;  but  they  gave  him  neither  heed  nor 
hearing,  for  they  remembered  what  at  first  it  cost 
them  to  hear  him  a  few  words. 

The  next  night  he  sends  again,  and  then  who 
should  be  his  messenger  to  Mansoul  but  the  terri- 
ble captain  Sepulchre  ;  so  captain  Sepulchre  came 
up  to  the  walls  of  Mansoul,  and  made  his  oration  to 
the  town. 

"  O   ye  inhabitants  of  the  rebellious  Mansoul 
town  of  Mansoul !  I  summon  you  in  the  summoned 
n  vme    of   the    prince    Diabolus,    that  by  captain 
without  any   more   ado,  you  set   open  Sepulchre* 
the  gates  of  your  town,   and  admit  the 


220  VllE  HOLY  WAR. 

great  lord  to  come  in.  But  if  you  shall  still  rebel, 
when  we  have  taken  to  us  the  town  by  force,  we 
will  swallow  you  up  as  the  grave;  wherefore,  if  you 
trill  hearken  to  my  summons,  say  so,  and  if  not, 
then  let  me  know. 

"  The  reason  of  this  my  summons,  quoth  he,  is 
for  that  my  lord  is  your  undoubted  prince  and  lord, 
as  you  yourselves  have  formerly  owned  :  nor  shall 
that  assault,  which  was  given  to  my  lord  when  Em- 
manuel dealt  so  dishonourable  by  him,  prevail  with 
him  to  lose  his  right,  and  so  forbear  to  attempt  to 
recover  his  own.  Consider  then,  O  Mansoui !  with 
thyself;  wiltthou  shew  thyself  peaceable  or  not  ?  If 
thou  shalt  quietly  yield  up  thyself,  then  our  old 
friendship  shall  be  renewed  ;  but  if  thou  shalt  re- 
fuse and  rebel,  then  expect  nothing  but  fire  and 
sword." 

When  the  languishing  town  of  Man- 
They  am-  soul  had  heard  this  summoner  and  his 
rver  him  summons,  they  were  yet  more  put  to 
not  a  tvcrd.  their  dumps,   but   made  to  the  captain 

no  answer  at  all,  so  aw  ay  he  went  as  he 

came. 
They  ad-  But  after  some  consultation  among 
dress  them-  themselves,  as  also  with  some  of  their 
selves  to  captains,  they  applied  themselves  afresh 
their  good  to  the  Lord  Secretary  for  counsel  and 
Lord  Sec-  advice  from  him  ;  for  this  Lord  Secre- 
retary.  tary    was   their   chief  preacher  (as  also 

was  mentioned  in  some  pages  before) 
only  now  he  was  ill  at  ease,  and  of  him  they  begged 
favour  in  those  two  or  three  things. 

1.  That  he  would  look  comfortably  upon  them, 
and  not  keep  himself  so  much  retired  from  them  as 
formerly.  Also,  that  he  would  be  prevailed  with  to 
give  them  a  hearing,  while  they  should  make 
known  their  miserable  condition  to  hina.  But  to 
this  he  told  them  as  before,  "  That  as  yet  he  was 
but  ill  at  ease,  and  therefore  could  not  do  as  he  had 
formerly  done." 

2.  That  he  would  be  pleased  to  give  them  his  ad- 
vice about  their  now  so  important  affairs,  for  that 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  221 

Diabolus  was  come  and  set  down  before  the  town, 
with  no  less  than  twenty  thousand  Doubters.  They 
said  moreover,  that  both  he  and  his  captains  were 
cruel  men,  and  that  they  were  afraid  of  them.  But 
to  this  he  said,  "  You  must  look  to  the  law  of  the 
Prince,  and  there  see  what  is  laid  upon  you  to  do." 

3.  Then  they  desired  that  his  highness  would  help 
them  to  frame  a  petition  to  Shaddai,  and  unto  Em* 
manuel  his  son,  and  that  he  would  set  his  own  hand 
thereto,  as  a  token  that  he  was  one  with  them  in  it : 
"For,  said  they,  my  Lord,  many  a  one  have  we  sent, 
but  can  get  no  answer  of  peace  ;  but  now  surely  one, 
with  thy  hand  unto  it,  may  obtain  good  far  Mansoul." 

But  all  the  answer  that  he  gave  t#  this 
was,  *  that  they  had   offended  their  Em-  The  cmst 
manuel,    and  had  also   grieved    himself,  of  his  being 
and  that  therefore  they  must,  as  yet  par-  ill  at  c&sc. 
take  of  their  own  devices. 

This  answer  of  the  Lord   Secretary,  fell   like  a 
mill-stone  upon  them  ;  yea,  it  crushed  them  so  that 
they  could  not  tell  what  to  do,  yet  they 
durst  not  comply  with   the  demands  of  Lam.   1.3. 
Diabolus,    nor  with  the  demands  of  his  The  sad 
captains.  So  then  here  were  the  straits  straits  of 
that  the  town  of  Mansoul  was  betwixt,  Mansoul. 
when   the  enemy    came  upon  her;  her 
foes  were  ready  to  swallow  her  up,  and  her  friends 
did  forbear  to  help  her. 

Then  stood  up   my  lord  mayor,  whose  name  was 
my  lord  Understanding,  and  he  began  to  pick  and 
pick,  until  he  had  picked  comfort  out  of  that  seem- 
ingly bitter  saying  of  the  Lord  Secretary  ;  for  thus 
he  descanted  upon  it :  For,  said  he,  this  unavoidably 
follows    upon   the  saying  of  my  Lord's 
"That  we  must  yet  suffer  for  our  sins.""  A  comment 
But,  quoth   he,  the  words  yet  sound,  as  upon       the 
if  at  last  we    should  be  saved   from  our  Lord    Sec* 
enemies,  and  that  after  a  few  more  sor-  reiarifs 
rows,  Emmanuel  will  come  and  be  our  speech. 
help.     Now  the    lord    mayor  was    the 
more    critical  in   his  dealing   with  the  Secretary's 
wc#dV,;*t>ecause  my  lord  was  more  than  a  prophet'; 
19* 


222  Wffl  M©L1f  WAIL 

and  because  none  of  his  words  were  such,  but  that 
at  all  times  they  were  most  exactly  significant,  and 
the  townsmen  were  allowed  to  pry  into  them,  and 
to  expound  them  to  their  best  advantage. 

So  they  took  their  leaves  of  my  Lord,  and  return- 
ed, and  went,  and  came  to  the  captains,  to  whom 
they  did  tell  what  my  lord  high  Secretary  had  taid, 
who,  when  they  had  heard  it,  were  all  of  the  same 
opinion  as  my  lord  mayor  himself;  the  captains 
therefore  began  to  take  some  courage  unto  them, 
and  prepare  to  make  some  brave  attempt  upon  the 
camp  ©f  the  enemy,  and  to  destroy  all  that  were 
Diabolians,  with  the  roving  Doubters  that  the  ty- 
rant had  brought  with  him,  to  destroy  the  poor  town 

of  Mansoul. 
The    town       So  all  betook  themselves  forthwith  to 
of      Man-  their  places,  the  captains  to  theirs,   the 
soul  in  or-  lord    mayor    to     his,    the    subordinate 
dcr.  preacher  to  his,  and  my   lord  Will  be  will 

to  his.  The  captains  longed  to  be  at 
Some  work  for  their  Prince,  for  they  delighted  in 
warlike  achievements.  The  next  day  therefore 
they  came  together  and  consulted,  and  after  consul- 
tation had,  they  resolved  to  give  an  answer  to  the 
captain  of  Diabolus  with  slings;  and  so  they  did  aft 
the  rising  of  the  sun  on  the  morrow ;  for  Diabolus 
had  ventured  to  come  nearer  again,  but  the  sling 
stones  were  to  him  amd  his  like  hornets.  For  as 
there  is  nothing  to  the  town  of  Mansoul  so  terrible 
as  the  roaring  of  Diabelus's  drum ;  so  there  is  no- 
thing to  Diabolus  so  terrible  as  the  well  playing  of 
Emmanuel's  slings.  Wherefore  Diabolus  was  forced 

to  make  another  retreat  yet  further  off, 
Words  ap-  from  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul. — • 
plied  a-  Then  did  the  lord  mayor  of  Mansoul 
gainst  him  cause  the  bell  to  be  rung,  and  that 
by  faith,  thauks  should  be  sent  to  the  lord  high 
Zech.  9.  Secretary,  by  the  mouth  of  the  subordi- 
35.  mate   preacher;  for  that  by   his  words, 

the  captains  and  elders  of  Mansoul  had 

been  strengthed  against  Diabolus. 
When  Diabolus  saw   that  bis  captains  and   «ol- 


Ttffc  HOLY  WAB.  228 

diers,  high  lords  and  renowned,  were  frightened  and 
beaten  down,  by  the  stones  that  came  fror.  he  gold- 
en slings  of  the  Prince  of  the  town  of  Mansaal,  he  be- 
theught  himself,  and  said.  "  I  will  try  to  itch  them 
by  fawning,  I  will  try  to  flatter  them  into  my  net." 

Wherefore,  after   a   while,  he  came 
down  again  to  the  wall,  not  now  with      Diahdus 
his  drum,  nor  with  captuin   Sepulchre,      changes 
but  having  all  besugared  his  lips  he  seem-      his  way. 
ed  te  be  a  very  sweet  mouthed,  peacea- 
ble prince,  designing  nothing  for  humours  sake,  nor 
to  be  revenged  on   Mansoul  for  injuries  by    theat 
done  to  him,  hut  the  welfare,  and  good,  and  advan- 
tage of  the  town  and  people  therein,  was  now,  as  he 
said,  his  only  design.     Wherefore,  after  he  had  cal- 
led for  audience,  and  desired  that  the  towsfolk  would 
give  it  to  him,  he  proceeded  in  his  oration,  and  said  : 

"  O  !  the  desire  of  ray  henrt,  the  famous  town  of 
Mansoul !    how    many   nights    have    I 
watched,   and  how  many   weary   steps   1  Pet.  5.  8. 
have  I  taken,  if,  perhaps,  I  might  do  thee  Rev.  12.19. 
goed :  far  be  it,  far  be  it  from  me,  to  de- 
sire to  make  war  upon  you  ;  if  ye  will  but  willingly 
and  quietly  deliver   up  yourselves  unto  me.     You 
know  that  you  were  mine  of  old      Re- 
member also,  that  so  long  as  you  enjoy-  Mat.  8.  4. 
ed  me  for  your  lord,  and  that   I  enjoyed  Luke  4.  6,  7 
you  for  my  subjects,  yen  wanted  for  noth- 
ing of  all  the  delights  of  the  earth,  that  I  Satan 
your  lord  and  prince  could  get  for  you ;  reads  all 
or  that  I  could  invent  to  make  you  bon-  batkwards. 
ny  and  blyth  withal :  consider,  you  never 
had  so  many  hard,  dark,  troublesome   and  heart  af- 
flicting h©urs  while  you  were  mine,  as  you  have  had 
since  you  revolted  from  me  ;  nor  shall  yeu  have  ever 
peace  again ;  and  I  will  grant,  yea,  en- 
large your  old  charter,  with  abundance  Take    heed 
of  privileges ;  so  that  your  license  and  Mansoul.   . 
liberty  shall  be,  to  take,  hold,  enjoy,  and 
make  your  own,  all  that  is  pleasant  from  the  east  t© 
Ahp  west.    Nor  shall  any  of  those  lHcivilities  where- 
with yon  have  offeaded  me,  be  ever  charged  upoa 


224  ^HE  HOLY  WAR. 

you  by   me,  so  Jong  as  the  sun  and  moon  endureth* 
Nor  shall  any  of  those  dear  friends  of  mine,  that  now 
for  the  fear  of  you,  lie   lurking  in  dens, 
Sins.  holes   and   caves  in  Mansoul,  be  hurtful 

to  you  any  more  ;  yea,  they  shall  he  your 
servants,  and  shall  minister  unfo  you  of  their  sub- 
stance, and  of  whatever  shall  come  to 
The  pleas-  hand.  I  need  speak  no  more,  you  know 
lire  of  sin.  them,  and  have  sometime  since  been 
much  delighted  in  their  company;  why 
then  should  we  abide  at  such  odds  ?  Let  us  renew 
our  old  acquaintance  and  friendship  again. 

"Bear  with  your  friend.  I  take  the  liberty  at 
this  time  to  speak  thus  freely  unto  you.  The  love 
that  I  have  to  you  presses  me  to  do  it, 
ZVo,  «0,  no,  as  also  does  the  zeal  of  my  heart  for  my 
not  upon  friends  with  you;  put  me  not  to  further 
pain  of  trouble,  nor  yourselves  to  further  fears 
eternal  and  frights.     Have  you  I  will,  in  a  way 

damnation,  of  peace  or  war  ;  nor  do  you  flatter  your- 
selves with  the  power  and  force  ©f  your 
captains,  or  that  your  Emmanuel  will  shortly  come 
in  to  your  help,  for  such  strength  will  do  you  no 
pleasure. 

84  I  am  come  against  you  with  a  stout  and  valiant 
army,  and  all  the  chief  princes  of  the  den  are  even 
at  the  head  of  it.  Besides,  my  captains  are  swifter 
than  eagles,  stronger  than  lions,  and  are  more  greedy 
of  prey  than  are  the  evening  wolves.  What  is  Og 
of  Basban?  what  is  Goiiah  of  Gain  !  what  is  an 
hundred  more  ©f  them  to  one  of  the  least  of  my  cap- 
tains ?  how  then  shall  Mansoul  think  to  escape  my 
hand  and  force  ?" 

Diabolus  having  thus  ended  his  flattering,  fawn- 
ing, deceitful  and  lying  speech  to  the  famous  towa 
of  Mansoul,  the  lord  Mayor  replied  upon  himself  as 
follows  : 

"  O  Diabolus,  prince,  of  darkness,  and 
The  lord  master  of  all  deceit,  thy  lying  flatteries 
mayor's  we  have  had,  and  made  sufficient  proba- 
ansmer.        tion  of,  and  have  tasted  too  deeph 

that  destruction  cup  already  ;  should  w<* 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  225 

therefore  again  hearken  unto  thee,  and  so  break  the 
commandments  of  our  great  Shaddai,  to  join  in  affin- 
ity with  thee  ;  would  not  our  Prince  reject  us,  ami 
cast  us  off  forever;  and  being  cast  off  by  hirn,  can 
the  place  that  he  has  prepared  for  thee  he  a  place  of 
rest  for  us  ?  Besides,  O  thou  art  empty  and  void  of 
all  truth,  we  are  rather  ready  to  die  by  thy  band, 
than  to  fall  in  with  thy  flattering  and  lying  deceits." 
When  the  tyrant  saw  that  there  was  little  to  be  got 
by  parleying  with  my  lord  mayor,  he  fell  into  an 
hellish  rage,  and  resolved  that  again,  with  his  army 
•f  Doubters,  he  would  another  time  assault  the  town 
of  Mansoul. 

So  he  called  for  his  drummer,  who  beat  up  for  his 
men,  (and  while  he  did  beat,  Mansoul  did  shake)  to 
be   in  readiness   to  give   battle  to  the  corporation  ; 
then  Diabolus  drew  near  with  his  army,  and   thus 
disposed  of  his   men.     Captain   Cruel   and  captain 
Torment,  these  he  drew  up  and  placed 
against  Feelgate,  and  commanded  them       Feelgate. 
to  sit  down  there  for  the  war.     And   he 
also  appointed,  that   if  need  were,  cap- 
tain No-ease  should  come  in  to  their  re-    Nose-gate, 
lief.     At   Nosegate  he    placed   captain 
Brimstone,  and   captain   Sepulchre,   and  bid  them 
look  well  to  their  ward  on  that  side  of  the 
town  of  Mansoul.     But  at  Eyegate  he      Eye-gate. 
placed  that  grim-faced  one  captain  Past- 
hope,  and    there  also  now   he   did  set  his  terrible 
standard. 

Now  captain  Insatiable  he  was  to  look  to  the  car- 
riages of  Diabolus,  and  was  also  appointed  to  take 
into  cusfodj-  that,  or  those  persons  and  things  that 
should  at  any  time,  as  prey,  be  taken  from  the  enemy. 

Now  Mouth-gate,  the  inhabitants  of 
Mansoul  ktpt  for  a  sally  port,  wherefore  Mouth-gate. 
that  they  kept  strong,  for  that  was  it  by, 
and  out  at  which  the  townsfolk  did  send  their  peti- 
tions to  Emmanuel  their  Prince,  and  also  was  the 
gate,  from  the  top  of  which  the  captains  did  play 
their  slings  at  the  enemies,  for  that  gate  stood  some- 
what ascending,  so  that  the  placing  of  them  there, 


2£$  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

The  use  of  and  the  letting  of  them   fly  from  that 
Mouthgate.  place,  did  most  execution  against  the 

tyrant's  army  ;  wherefore  for  these  cau- 
ses with  others,  Biabolus  sought  if  possible,  to  stop 
up  Mouth-gate  with  dirt. 

Now  as  Biabolus  was  busy  and  industrious  ifc- 
preparing  to  make  an  assault  upon  the  town  of  Man- 
soul  without,  so  the  captains  and  soldiers  in  the  cor- 
poration, were  as  busy  in  preparing  within  :  they 
mounted  their  slings,  they  set  up  their  banners,  and 
sounded  their  trumpets,  and  put  themselves  in  such 
order  as  was  judged  most,  for  the  anaoyance  of  the 
enenay,  and  for  the  advantage  of  Mansoul,  and  gave 
to  their  soldiers  orders  to  be  ready  at  the  sound  of 
the  trumpe  t  for  war.  The  lord  Willbewill  also,  he 
took  the  charge  of  watching  against  the  rebels  with- 
in, and  to  do  what  he  eould  to  take  them  while  with- 
out, or  to  stiflle  them  within  their  caves,  dens  and 
holes  within  the  town  wall  of  Mansoul.  And,  to 
speak  the  truth  of  him,  ever  since  he  did  penance 
for  his  fault,  he  has  shewed  as  much  honesty  and 
bravery  ©f  spirit,  as  any  in  Mansoul ;  for  he  took 
one  Jolly  and  his  brother  Greggish,  the  two  sons  of 

his  servant  Harmless-mirth  (for  to  that 
Jelly  and  day,  though  the  father  was  committed  to 
Greggish  ward,  the  sons  had  a  dwelling  in  the 
taken  and  house  of  my  lord)  I  say  he  took  them, 
executed.       and  with  his  own  hand  put  them  to  the 

cross.  And  this  was  the  reason  why  he 
hanged  them  up  after  their  father  was  put  into  the 
ha»)ds  of  Mr.  Trueman  the  jailor ;  they,  his  sons,  be- 
gan to  phy  their  pranks,  and  to  be  tickling  and  toy- 
ing with  the  daughters  of  their  lord;  nay,  it  was 
jealoused  (hat  they  were  loo  familiar  with  them,  the 
which  was  brought  to  his  lordship's  ear.  Now  his 
lordship  being  unwilliag.  unadvisedly  to  put  any 
ma  to  death,  did  not  suddenly  fall  upon  them,  but 
set  watch  and  spies,  to  see  if  the  thing  was  true,  of 
the  which  he  was  soon  informed,  for  his  two  servants, 
whose  names  were  Findout  and  Tellall,  catched 
them  together  in  an  uncivil  manner  more  than  once 
•r  twice,  and  went  and  tftld  their  lord.     So  wh«» 


1HE  HGLY  WAR.  22$ 

my  lord  Willbewill  had  sufficient  ground  to  believo 
the  thing  was  true,  he  takes  the  two  young  Diaboli- 
ans,  for  such  they  were  for  their  father 
was  a  Diabolian  born,  and  has  them  to  The  place 
Eyegate,  where  he  raised  a  very  high  of  their  ex* 
cross  just  in  the  face  of  Diaboius  and  his  ecution. 
army,  and  there  he  hanged  the  young  villains  in  de- 
fiance to  captain  Pastliope,  and  of  the  horrible  stand- 
ard of  the  tyrant. 

Now   this  christian  act  of  the  brave  Mortifiea- 
lord   Willbewill  did  greatly  alarm  cap-  tion  of  sin 
tain  Pasthope,  discouraged  the  army  of  is  a  sign  of 
Diaboius,   put  fear  into  the  Diabolian  hope  of  life. 
runagates  in  Mansoul,  and  put  strength 
and  courage  into  the  captains  that  belonged  to  Em- 
manue!  the  Prince,  for  they  without  did  gather,  and 
that   by  this  very  act  of  my  lord,  that  Mansoul  was 
resolved  to  fight,  and  that  the  Diabolians  within  the 
town  could  not  do  such  things  as  Diaboius  had  hopes 
they  would.     Nor  was  this  the  only   proof  of  the 
brave  lord  WillbewilFs  honesty  to  the  town,  nor  of 
his  loyalty  to  his  Prince,  as  will  afterwards  appear. 
Now  when  the  children  of  Prudent-thrifty   who 
dwelt  with  Mr.  Mind,  for  Thrifty  left  children  with 
Mr.  Mind  when  he  was  also  committed  to  prison, 
and  their  names  were  Gripe  and  Rake- 
all,  these  he  begat  of  Mr.  Mind's  bastard     Mr.  Mind 
daughter,  whose  name  was  Mrs.  Hold-    plays    the 
fastbad  ;  I  say  when  his  children  per-     man. 
oeived  how  the  lord  Willbewill  had  ser- 
ved them  that  dwelt  with  him,  what  do  they  then 
but  lest  they  should  drink  of  the  same  cup,  endeav- 
our to  make  their  escape  ?  but  Mr.  Mind  being  wary 
of  it,  took  them  and  put  them  in  hold  in  his  house 
till  morning,  (for  this  was  done  over  night)  and  re- 
membering that  by  the  law  of  Mansoul  all  Diaboli- 
ans were  to  die :  and  to  be  sure  they  were  at  least 
fey  the  father's  side  such,  and  some  say  by  mother's 
tide  too  i  what  does  he,  but  takes  them  and  puts 
them  in  chains,   and  carries  them  to  the  self  same 
place  where  my  lord  hanged  his  two  before,  and 
ftiere  he  hanged  them* 


32$  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

The  townsmen  also  took  great  encow- 
Mans§ul  rage  me  nt  at  this  act  of  Mr.  Mind,  and 
set  against  did  what  they  could  to  have  taken  some 
the  Diabo-  more  of  those  Diabolian  troublers  of 
lions.  Mansoul ;  but  at  that  time  the  rest  lay  so 

close  and  quiet,  that  they  could  not  be 
apprehended  ;  so  they  set  against  them  a  diligent 
watch  and  sent  every  man  to  his  place. 

I  told  you  a  little  before,  that  Diabo- 
Didbolus'  lus  and  his  army  were  somewhat  abash- 
kindtiess  ed  and  discouraged  at  the  sight  of  what 
turned  into  my  lord  Willbewill  did,  when  he  hanged 
furious  up  those  two  young  Diabolians  ;  but  his 
madness.  discouragement  quickly  turned  itself  in- 
to furious  madness  and  rage  against  the 
town  of  Mansoul,  and  fight  it  he  would.  Also,  the 
townsmen  and  captains  within,  they  had  their  hopes 
and  their  expectations  heightened,  believing  at  last 
the  day  would  be  theirs,  so  they  feared  them  the 
less.  The  subordinate  preacher  too  made  a  sermon 
about  it,  and  he  took  that  theme  for  his 
Gen.  49. 19.  text,  "  God,  a  troop  shall  overcome  him5 
but  he  shall  overcome  at  last."  Whence 
be  shewred  that  though  Mansoul  should  be  sorely 
put  to  it  at  the  first,  yet  the  victory  should  most 
certainly  be  MansouTs  at  last. 

So  Diabolus  commanded  that  his  drummer  should 
beat  a  charge  against  the  town,  and  the  captains 
also  that  were  in  the  town  sounded  a  charge  against 
them,  but  they  had  no  drum,  they  were  trumpets  of 
silver  they  sounded  against  them.  Then  they 
which  were  of  the  camp  of  Diabolus  came  down  to 
the  town  to  take  it,  and  the  captains  in 
With  heart  the  castle,  with  the  slingers  at  Mouth- 
and  mouth,  gate,  played  upon  them  amain.  And 
now  there  was  nothing  heard  in  the 
camp  of  Diabolus  but-horrible  rage  and  blasphemy  ; 
but  in  the  town,  good  words,  prayer  and  singing  of 
psalms:  the  enemy  replied  with  horrible  objections 
and  the  terrihleness  of  their  drum,  but  the  town 
made  answer  wiHi  the  slapping  of  their  slings,  and 
the  melodious  aolse  of  their  trumpets.    And  thus  the 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  22§ 

fight  lasted  for  several  days  together,  only  now  and 
then  they  had  some  small  intermission,  in  the  which 
the  townsmen  refreshed  themselves,  and  the  cap- 
tains made  ready  for  another  assault. 

The  captains  of  Emmanuel  were  clad  in  silver 
armour,  and  the  soldiers  in  that  which  was  of  proof; 
the  soldiers  of  Diaholus  were  clad  in  iron,  which 
was  made  to  give  place  to  Emmanuel's  engine  shot : 
In  the  town  some  were  hurt  and  some  were  greatly 
mounded.  Now  the  worst  ©n't  was,  a  surgeon  was 
scarce  in  Mansoul,  for  that  Emmanuel  at  present 
was  absent.  Howbeit,  with  the  leaves  of  a  tree  the 
wounded  were  kept  from  dying,  yet  their 
wounds  did  greatly  putrify,  and  some  Rev.  22.  2. 
did  grievously  stink.  Of  the  townsmen  Psal.  33.  5 
these  were  wounded  to  wit* 

My  lord  Reason  he  was  wounded  in  Who  of 
the  head  ;  and  ray  lord  mayor  in  the  eye.     Mansoul 

Another   that  was  wounded  was  Mr.     were 
Mind,  he  received  his  wound  about  the     wounded. 
stomach. 

The  honest  subordinate  preacher  also,  he  receiv- 
ed a  shot  not  far  off  the  heart,  but  none  of  these 
were  mortal. 

Many  also   of  the  inferior   set   were     Hopeful 
not  only  wounded,  but  slain  outright.         thoughts. 

Now  in  the  camp  of  Diaholus   were  Who  in  the 
wounded  and  slain,  a  considerable  num-  ca??ip     of 
ber.     For  instance.  Diaholus 

Captain   rage   he  was  wounded,  and  were 
so  was  captain  Cruel.  wounded 

Captain  Damnation  was  made  to  re-  and  slain. 
treat  and  to  ratrehch  himself  further  o:T 
Mansoul ;  the  standard  aiso  of  Diaholus  was  beaten 
down,  and  his  standard  bearer,  captain   Muchhurt, 
bad  his  brsins  beat  out  with  a  sling  stone,  to  the  no 
liitie  grief  and  shame  ©f  his  prince  Diaholus. 

he  Doubters  were  slain  Tlte  victory 
outright,  though    oough  of  them  are  left  did       turn 
alive  to  make  Ma;  soul  shake  and  totter,  that  day  t& 
Now  the    jctory  t)    t  day  being  turned  Mansoul* 
to  Mansoul,  did  4)ur  great  vaiouriato  the  &c.. 
20 


280  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

townsmen  and  captains,  and  did  cover  Diabolus's 
eamp  with  a  cloud,  but  withal  it  made  them  far  more 
furious.  So  the  next  day  Mansoul  rested,  and  com- 
manded that  the  bells  should  be  rung,  the  trumpets 
also  joyfully  sounded,  and  the  captains  shouted 
round  the  town. 

My  lord  Willbewill  also  was  not  idle, 
My  lord  but  clid  notable  service  within,  against 
Willbewill  the  domestics  of  the  Diabolians  that 
taketh  one  were  in  the  town,  not  only  by  keeping 
Anything  of  them  in  awe,  for  he  lighted  on  one  at 
mid  ene  last,  whose  name  was  Mr.  Anything,  a 
Loosefoot  fellow  of  whom  mention  was  made  be- 
and  com-  fore  :  for  it  was  he,  if  you  remember, 
mitteth  that  brought  the  three  fellows  to  Diabo- 
themte  lus,  whom  the  Diabolians  took  out  of 
ward.  captain  Boanerges's  companies,  and  that 

persuaded  them  to  list  themselves  un- 
der the  tyrant,  to  fight  against  the  army  of  Shad- 
dai;  my  l@rd  Willbewill  did  also  take  a  notable 
Diabolian,  whose  name  was  Loosefoot ;  this  Loose- 
foot  was  a  scout  to  the  vagabonds  in  Mansoul,  and 
that  did  use  to  carry  tidings  out  of  Mansoul,  to  the 
camp,  and  out  of  the  camp  to  those  ©f  the  enemies 
in  Mansoul ;  but  these  my  lord  sent  away  safe  to 
Mr.  Trueman  the  jailor,  with  commandment  to 
keep  them  in  irons;  for  he  intended  then  to  have 
them  out  to  be  crucified,  when  it  would  be  for  the 
best  to  the  corporation,  and  most  for  the  discourage- 
ment of  the  camp  of  the  enemies. 

My  lord  mayor  also,  though  he 
Tke  cap-  could  net  stir  about  se  muck  as  former- 
tains  con-  ly,  because  of  the  wound  he  had  lately 
suit  to  fall  received,  yet  gave  he  out  orders  to  all 
upon  the  that  were  the  natives  of  Massoul,  to 
enemy.  leok  to  their  watch  and  stand  upon  thAc 
guard,  and  as  occasion  should  offer,  to 
prove  themselves  men. 

Mr.  Conscience  the  preacher,  he  also  did  his  ut- 
saost  to  keep  all  bis  good  documents  alive  upon 
the  hearts  of  the  people  ef  Mansoul. 

Well,  a  while  after,  the  captains,  and  steut  enes 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  2&1 

•f  the  town  of  Mansoul,  agreed  and  resolved  upon 
a  time  to  make  a  sally  out  upon  the  camp  of  Dia- 
bolus,  and  this  must  be  done  in  the  night ;  and 
there  was  the  folly  of  Mansoul  (for  the  night  is  al- 
ways the  best  for  the  enemy,  but  the  worst  for  Man- 
soul to  fight  in)  but  yet  they  would  do  it,  their  cou- 
rage was  so  high  ;  their  last  victory  also  still  stuck 
in  their  memories. 

So  the  night  appointed  being  come,  the  Princes's 
brave  captains  cast  lots  who  should  lead 
the  van  in  this  new  and  desperate  expe-  They  fight 
ilition  against  Diabolas,  and  against  his  in  the  night, 
Diabolian  army,  and  the  lot  fell  to  cap-  Who  do  lead 
tain  Credence,   to  captain  Experience,  the   van. 
p*nd    to  captain   Goodhope  to  lead  the 
Forlornhope.     This  captain  Experience  the  Prince 
created   such   when  himself  did  reside  in  the  town 
ef  Mansoul ;  so,  as   I   said,   they  made 
their  sally  out  upon   the  army  that  lay     How  they 
in  the  siege  against   them;  aad    their    fail  on. 
hap  was  to  fall  in  with  the  main  body  of 
their  enemies.     iT#w   Diabolus   and   his  men  being 
expertly  accustomed  to  night   work,  took  the  alarm 
presently,  and  were  as  ready  to  give  them  battle  as 
if    they    had    sent    (hem    word    of  their    coming. 
Wherefore  to  it  they  went  amain,  and   blows  were 
heard  on  every  side,  the  hell    drum   also  was  beat 
most  furiously,  while   the  trumpets   of  the   Prince 
r      ;  sweetly  sounded*     And  thus  the  battle  was 
joined,  and  captain  Insatiable  looked  to  the  enemies 
carriages,  and  waited  when  he  should  receive  some 
prey. 

The  Prince's  captains  fought  it  stoutly,  beyond 
what   indeed   could   be  expected   they 
should  ;  they  wounded  many  the^  m  de  They  fight 
the  whole  army  of  Biaboius  to   make  bravely. 
a  retreat.     But  I  eauno    tell  how,  but 
the  brave  captain  Credence,  captain  Soodhope,  and 
eaptain  Experience,  as  they    were  upon  the  pursuit* 
cutting  down,  and  follawiag  hard   after  the  enemy 
in  the  rear,  captain  Credence  stumbled  and  fell,   by 
which  fall  he  caught  so  great  a  hurt,  that  he  could 


232  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Captain  not  rise  til!  captain  Experience  did  help 
Credence  him  up,  at  which  their  men  were  put  in 
hurt/  disorder  ;  the  captain  also  was  so  full  of 

pain,  that  he  could  not  forhear  but  aloud 
to  cry  out;  at  this  the  other  two  captaius  fainted., 

supposing   that  captaiu   Credence  had 

The-  rest  cf  received   his  mortal  wound ;  their  mea 

the  captains  also  were   more  disordered,  and  had'  no 

faint.  list  to  fight.     Now  Diabolus  beiag  very 

observing,  though  at  this  time  as  yet  he 
•was  put  to  the  worst,  perceiving  that  an  halt  was 
made  among  the  mea  that  were  the  pursuers*  what 
does  he,  but  takes  \t  for  granted,  that  the  captains 
were  either  wound ad  or  dead;  he  therefore  at  first 
makes  a  stand,  then  faces  about,  and  so  comes  up 
upon  the  Prince's  army,  with  as  much  of  his  fury  as 

lieli  could  help  him  to,  and  his  hap  was 
Diabolus  to  fall  ia  just  among  the  three  captains 
takes  cow-  captain  Credence,  captain  Goodhope, 
age.  and  captain   Experience,   and  did    cut, 

wound,  and  pierce  there  so  dreadfully, 
that  what  through  discouragement,  what  through 
disorder,  and  what  through  the  wounds  that  now 
they  had  received,  and  also  the  loss  of  much   blood, 

they  scarce  were  able,  though  they  had 
The  prince's  for  their  power  the  three  best  bands 
forces  in  ManseuJ,  to  get  safe    into  the  hold 

beaten.  again. 

Satan  Now  when  the   body  of  the  Prince's 

sometimes  army  saw  how  these  three  captains  were 
makes  put  to  the  worst,  they   thought  it  their 

saints  cat  wisdom  to  make  as  safe  and  good  a  re- 
their  words,  treat  as  they  could  and  so  returned  by 
Diabolus  the  sally  port  again,  and  so  there  was  an 
flashed.  end  of  this  present  action.  But  Diabd* 
He  de-  lus  was  so  flushed  with  the  night's  work 
mmidsihe  that  he  promised  himself,  in  a  few  day? 
imm.  an  easy  and  cornpieat  conquest  over  the 

town  of  Mansoul ;  wherefore  on  the  day 
following,  he  comes  up  to  the  sides  thereof  with 
great  boldness,  and  demands  entrance,  and  that 
forthwith  they  deliver  themselves  up  to  lus  govern* 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  233 

went.  The  Diabolians  too  that  were  within,  they 
began  to  be  somewhat  brisk,  as  we  shall  shew  af- 
terwards. 

But  the  valiant  lord   Mayor  replies, 
that  he  must  get  by  force,  for  as  long  as     The    lord 
Emmanuel  their  Prince  was  alive  (tho'     Mayor's 
he  at  present  was  not  so  with  them  as     answer. 
they  wished)  they  should  never  consent 
to  yield  Mansoul  up  to  another. 

And  with    that   the   lord  Willbewill     Brave 
stood  up,  and  said  ;  "Diabolus,  thou  mas-     JViUbc- 
ter  of  the  den,  and  enemy  to  all  that  is     will's 
good,  we  poor  inhabitants  of  the  town     speech. 
of  Mansoul,  are  too  well  acquainted  with 
thy  rule  and  government,  and  with  the  end  of  these 
things,  that   for  certain   will   follow    submitting  to 
thee  to  do  it.     Wherefore  though  a  while  we  were 
without  knowledge,  we  suffered  thee  to  take  us  (at 
the  bird  that  saw  not  the  snare  fell  into  the  hands  of 
the  fowler)  yet   since  we  have  been   turned  from 
darkue3s  to  light,  we  have  also  been  turned  from  the 
power  of  Satan  to  God.     And   though  through  thy 
subtility,  and   also  of  the  subtility  of  the  Diabolians 
within,  we  have  sustained  much  loss,  and  also  plun- 
ged ourselves  into  much    perplexity,  yet  give  up 
ourselves,  lay  down  our  arms,  and  yield  to  so  horrid 
a  tyrant  as  thou,  we  shall  not,  die  upon  the  place  we 
rather   chuge    to  do.     Besides  we  have  hopes,  that 
in  time  deliverance  will  eome  from  court  to  us,  and 
therefore  we  yet  will  maintain  a  war  against  thee. 

This  brave  speech  of  the  lord  Will- 
bewill, with  that  also  of  the  lord  miyor,  The      cap- 
did  somewhat  abate  the  boldness  of  Di-  tains      en* 
abolus    though  it  kindled  the  fury  of  his  couraged. 
rage.     It  also  succoured  the  townsmen 
and  captains;  yea,  it  was  a  plaster  to  the  brave  cap/- 
tain  Credence  his  wound;  for  you  mustkno.v  that  a 
brave  speech  nowT,  when  the  captains  of  the  tow n* 
with  their  men  of  war,  came  home  routed,  and  wlit  n 
the  enemy  took  courage  and  boldness  at  the  success 
he  had  obtained  to  draw  up  to  the  walls  ajid  tit- maud 
entrance,  as  he  did,  was  in  season,   and  also  advafir 
tageous.  20 # 


234  THE  H0L1T  WAB. 

The  lord  Willhewill  also  did  play  the  man  within, 
for  while  the  captains  and  soldiers  were  in  the  field, 
lie  was  in  arms  in  the  town,  and  wherever  by  him 
there  was  a  Diabolian  found,  they  were  forced  to 
feel  the  weight  of  his  heavy  hand,  and  also  the  edge 
of  his  penetrating  sword;  many  therefore  ©f  the 
Diabolians  he  wounded,  as  the  lord  Cavil,  the  lord 
Brisk,  the  lord  Pragmatic,  and  the  lord  Murmur ; 
several  also  of  the  meaner  sort  he  did  sorely  maim, 
tho'  there  cannot  at  this  time  an  account  be  given 
you  of  any  that  he  slew  outright.  The  cause  or  ra- 
ther the  advantage  that  my  lord  Willhewill  had  at 
this  time  to  do  thus,  was,  for  that  the  captains  were 
gone  out  to  fight  the  enemy  in  the  field.  For  now 
thought  th8  Diabolians  within,  is  our  time  to  stir 
and  to  make  an  uproar  in  the  town  ;  what  do  they 
therefore  but  quickly  get  themselves  into  a  body, 
and  fall  forthwith  to  hurricaning  in  Man- 
WillbewilFs  soul,  as  if  now  nothing  but  whirlwind 
gallantry,  and  tempest  should  be  there;  where- 
fore as  I  said,  he  takes  his  opportunity 
to  fall  in  among  them  with  his  men,  cutting  and 
slashing  with  courage  that  was  undaunted,  at  which 
the  Diabolians,  with  all  haste,  dispersed  themselves 
to  their  holds,  and  my  lord  to  his  place  as  before. 

This  brave  act  of  my  lord  did  some* 
Nothing  what  revenge  the  wrong  done  by  Dia- 
like  faith  bolus  to  captains,  and  also  did  let  them 
to  crush  know,  that  Mansoul  was  not  to  be  parted 
Dialclus.  with  for  the  loss  of  a  victory  or  two; 
wherefore  the  wings  of  the  tyrant  was 
♦lipt  again,  as  to  boasting  I  mean  in  comparison  of 
what  he  would  have  done,  if  the  Biabotkns  had  put 
the  town  to  the  same  plight  to  which  he  had  put  the 
eaptains. 

Well  Diabolus  yet  resolves  to  have  the  other  bout 
with  Mansoul,  for,  thought  he,  since  I  beat  them 
once,  I  may  beat  them  twice:  wherefore  he  com- 
manded his  men  to  be  ready  at  such  an  hour  of  the 
night  to  make  a  fresh  assault  upon  the  town,  and  he 
gave  it  out  in  special,  that  they  should  bend  all  their 
feree  against  Feelgate,  and  attempt  to  break  int© 


Wm  HOLY  WAR.  2B5f 

the  town  through  that :  The  word  that  He       tries 
then  he  did  give  to  the  officers  and  sol-  what        he 
diers  was  Hell  fire.     And  said  he,  if  we  can    do  up- 
break  in  upon  them,  as  I  w  ish  we  may  on  the  sense 
either  with  some,  or  with  all  oar  force,  and  feeling 
let  them   that  break  in   look  to  it,  that  of      the 
they  forget  not  the  word.    And  let  noih-  Christian. 
ing  be  heard  in  the  town  of  Mansoul 
but  Hell  fire,  Hell  fire,   Hell  fire.     The   drummer 
was  also  to  beat  without  ceasing,  and  the  standard* 
bearers  were  to  display  their  colours ;  the   soldiers 
too,  were  to  put  on   what  courage  they  could,  and  to 
see  that  they  played  manfully  their  parts  against 
the  tows. 

So  the  night  wras.  come,  and  all  things  by  the  ty- 
rant made  ready  for  the  work,  he  suddenly  makes  his 
assault    upon    Feeigate,   and  after  he  had  a   while 
struggled  there,  he  throws  the  gate  wide  open.     For 
the  truth  is,  those  gates  were  hut  weak  and  so  most 
easily  made  to  yield.     When  Diabolus  had  thus  far 
made    his    attempt,   he   placed  his  two  captains,   to 
wit,  Torment  and  No-ease  there;  so  he  attempted 
to  press  forward,   but    the   Prince's  captains  came 
down  upon  him,  and   made  his  entrance  more  diffi- 
cult   than   he  desired.     Ami   to  speak  trath,  they 
made  what  resistance  they  could :  but 
three  of  their  best  and  most  valiant  cap-     When 
tains    being    -wounded,    and    by    their     these 
wounds  made  much  incapable  of  doing     three  cop- 
the  town  that  service  ihey  would,  (and     tains    are 
all  the  rest  having  more  than  their  hands     disabled 
full  of  the  Doubters,  and   their  captains     what   can 
that   did  follow  Diabolus,  they  were  o-     the  rest  do 
verpowered  with  force,   nor  could  they    for       the 
keep  them  out  of  the  town ;  wherefore     town      of 
the  Prince's  men  and  their  captaias  be-    Mansoul. 
took  themselves  to  the  castle,   as  to  the 
strong  hold  of  the  town,  and  partly,  or  ratfeer   chief- 
ly, to  preserve  to  Emmanuel  the  prerogative  royal 
of  Mansoul,  for  so  was  the  castle  of  Mansoul. 

The  captains  therefore  being  fled  into  the  castle, 
the  eaemvj  without  much  resistance,  possess  them- 


28'6  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

selves  of  the  rest  of  the  town,  and  spreading  them- 
selves as  they  went,  into  every  corner,  they  cried 
out  as  they  marched,  according  to  the  command  of 
the  tyrant,  "  Hell  fire,  Hell  fire,  Hell  fire  ;"  so  that 
nothing  could  be  heard,  but  the  direful  noise  of  Hell 
fire,  together  with  the  roaring  of  DiaboWs  drum. 
And  now  did  the  clouds  hang  black  over 
The  sad  Mansoul,  nor  to  reason  did  any  thing 
fruits  of  but  ruin  seemed  to  attend  it.  Diabolui 
apostacy.  also  quartered  his  soldiers  in  the  hou- 
ses of  Mansoul.  Yea,  the  subordinate 
preacher's  house  was  as  full  of  these  outlandish 
Doubters  as  ever  it  could  hold;  and  so  was  my 
lord  mayor's,  and  my  lord  Willbewiil's  also:  yea, 
where  was  there  a  corner,  a  cottage,  barn,  or  a 
hogsty,  that  now  was  not  full  of  these  vermin  ? 
Yea,  they  turned  the  men  of  the  town  out  of  their 
houses,  and  would  lie  in  their  beds,  arid  sit  at  their 
table  themselves.  Ah,  poor  Mansoul !  now  thou 
feelest  the  fruits  of  sin,  and  what  venom  what  ve- 
nom was  in  the  flattering  words  of  Mr.  Carnal-se- 
curity !  They  made  great  havoc  of  whatever  they 
laid  their  hands  on  ;  yea,  they  fired  the  town  in  sev- 
eral places  ;  many  young  children  al- 
Gitilt.  so    were    by    them   dashed    to  pieces  ; 

Good  and    yen,  those  that   were  yet  unborn,    they 
tender  destroyed  in  their  mothers    wombs  ;  for 

thoughts.  you  must  think  that  it  could  not  now 
Holy  con-  be  otherwise ;  for  what  conscience, 
ccptions  what  pity,  what  bowels  or  compassion 
of  good.  can  any  expect  at  the  hand  of  outland- 
ish Doubter  ?  Many  in  Mansoul  that 
were  women,  both  young  and  old  they  forced,  rav- 
ished, and  beastlike  abused,  so  that  they  swooned, 
miscarried,  and  many  of  them  died,  and  so  lay  at  the 
top  of  every  street,  and  in  all  by  places  of  the  town. 
And  now  did  Mansoul  seem  to  be  nothing  but  a 
den  of  dragons,  an  emblem  of  hell,  and  a  place  of 
total  darkness.  Now  did  Mansoul  lie,  almost  like 
the  barren  wilderness ;  nothing  but  nettles,  briars, 
thorns,  weeds,  and  stinking  things,  seemed  now  to 
cover  the  face  of  Mansoal.     I  told  you  before,  hoyr 


EHE  HOLY  WAR.  f 3ff 

that  those   Diabolian  Doubters   turned  the  men  ©f 
Mansoul   out  of  their  beds,  and  now  I 
Trill    add,    they    wounded    them,  they     Rest. 
mauled  them,  yea   and  almost  brained 
many  of  them.     Many,  did    I    say,   yea,  most,   if 
not  all  of  them.     Mr.  Conscience  they  so  wound- 
ed, 3'ea,   and  his  wounds  so  festered,  that  he  could 
have  no  ease  day   nor   night,   but  lay  as   if  con- 
tinually upon  a  rack  (but  that  Shaddai 
rules    all,    certainly    they    had    slain  Sad     work 
him   out   right)    my   lord    mayor   they  among    tlie 
so  abused,  that  they  almost   put  out  his  townsmen. 
eyes  :  and  had  not  my  lord  Willbewill 
got  into  tke  castle,  they  intended    to  have  chopped 
him  all  to  pieces,  for  they  did  look  upon 
him,  as  his  heart  now  stood,  to   be  one  Satan    has 
of  the  very  worst  that  was  in  Mansoul  a    particu- 
against   Diabolus  and  his  erew.     And  lor      spite 
indeed  he  hatb  shewed  himself  a  man,  against    a 
and  more  of  his   exploits  you  will  hear  sanctified 
of  afterwards.  will. 

Now  a  man  might   have   walked   fop 
many  days  together  in   Mansoul,  and  Thoughts, 
scarce   had  seen  one  in  the  town  that 
looked   like  a   religious  man.     Oh  the  The    soul 
fearful  state  of  Mansoul  now  !  now  ev-  full  of  idle 
ery    comer    swarmed    with    outlandish  thoughts 
Doubters  ;    red    coats  and  black  coats  and  bias- 
walking  tlie  town  by  clusters,  and  filled  phemies. 
up  all    the  houses  with    hideous    noises, 
vain  songs,    lying  series,  and     blasphemous   lan- 
guage against  Shaddafand  his  Son.     Now  all  those 
Diabolians  that  lurked  in  the  walls,   and  dens,  and 
holes  that  were  in  the  town  of  Mansoul  came  forth 
and  shewed   themselves;    yea,   walked  with  open 
face  in  company   with   the  Doubters  that  were  in 
Mansoul ;  yea,  they  had  more  boldness  now  to  shew 
themselves  abroad,  than  had  any  ef  the  honest  in- 
habitants of  ;he  now  woful  town  of  Mansoul. 

But  DianoUis  and  his  outlandish  men  were  not  at 
peace  in  Mansoul,  i'oi  th  y  were  not  there  enter- 
tarn***  as  wen*  iae  captain*  and  forces  of  Emmanuel  j 


238  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

the  townsmen  did  hrow-beat  them  what  they  could  ; 
Nor  did  they  partake  or  make  destruction  of  any  of 
the  necessaries  of  Mansoul,  h\:t  that  which  they  sei- 
zed on  against  the  townsmen's  will ;  what  they  could 
they  hid  from  them,  and  what  they  could  not  they 
had  with  ill  will.  They,  poor  hearts,  had  rather 
have  had  their  room  than  their  eompany  ;  but  they 
were  at  present  their  captives;  and  their  captive* 
for  the  present  they  were  forced  to  be. 
Rom.  7.  But,  I  say,  they  discountenanced  them 
as  much  as  they  were  able,  and  shewed 
them  all  the  dislike  that  they  could. 

The  captains  also  from  the  castle  did  hold  them  in 
continual  play  with  their  slings,  to  the  chasing  anti 
fretting  of  the  minds  of  the  enemies  ;  true,  Diabolus 
made  a  great  many  attempts  to  have  broken  opea 
the  gates  of  the  castle,  but  Godly  fear 
Mr.  Godly-  was  made  the  keeper  of  that ;  and  he 
fearismade  was  a  man  of  courage,  conduct,  and  va- 
kecper  of  lour,  that  'twas  i»  vain,  as  leng  as  life 
the  castle  lasted  within  him,  to  think  to  do  that 
gales.  work,  though   mestly   desired ;    where- 

fore all  the  attempts  that  Diabolus  made 
against  him  were  fruitless ;  I  have  wished  some- 
times that  that  man  had  had  the  whole  rule  of  tbe 
town  of  Mansoul. 

Well  this  was  the  condition  of  the 
The  town  t@wn  of  Mansoul  for  about  two  years 
of  Mansoul  and  a  half;  the  body  of  the  town  was 
the  seat  $f  the  seat  of  war  ;  the  people  of  the  town 
war.  were  driven  into  holes,  and  the  glory  of 

Mansoul  whs  Ihkfin  the  dust !  what  rest 
then  could  be  to  the  inhabitants,  what  peace  could 
Mansoul  h'ive  and  wha*  sun  could  shine  upon  it? 
Had  the  eneim  lain  so  leag  itheut  in  the  plain  as 
against  the  town,  it  had  been  enough  to  have  fam- 
ished them ;  but  now,  svjben  they  shall  be  within, 
when  the  town  shall  be  their  tent,  their  trench,  and 
fort  against  the  castle  that  was  in  tbe  town;  when 
the  town  shall  be  against  the  town,  and  shall  serve 
to  be  a  defence  to  the  enemies  of  her  strength  and 
life :  I  say,  when  they  shall  make  use  of  the  forts  an* 


&HE  HOLY  WAR.  23* 

town   holds,   to    secure  themselves   in, 

even  till  they  shall  take,  spoil,  and  de-      Heart. 

molish  the  castle ;  this  was  terrible,  and 

yet  this  was  now  the  state  of  the  town  of  Mansaiil. 

After  the  town  of  Mansoul  had  been  in  this  s-id  and 
lamentable  condition,  for  so  long  a  time  ?s  I  have  told 
you,  and  no  petitions  that  they  presented  their 
Prince  with  all  this  while  could  prevail ;  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  town,  to  wit,  the  elders  and  chief  of 
Mansoul,  gathered  together,  and  after  some  time 
spent  in  condoling  their  miserable  state,  and  this 
miserable  judgment  coming  upon  them, 
they  agreed  together  to  draw  up  yet  Mr.  Godly* 
another  petition  and  sent  it  away  to  Em-  fears  id- 
manuei  for  relief,  but  Mr.  Godlyfear  vice  about 
stood  up  and  answered,  That  he  knew  drawing  up 
that  his  lord  the  prince  never  did  nor  a  petition 
never  would  receive  a  petition  for  those  to  the 

matters  from  the  hand  of  any  person  what-  Prince. 
soever,  unless  the  Lord  Secretary's  hand 
whs  to  it,  and  this,  quoth  he,  is  the  reason  that  yon 
prevailed  not  all  this  while.  Then  they  said,  they 
would  tfraw  up  one,  and  get  the  Lord  Secretary's 
hand  unto  it.  But  Mr.  Godly  fear  answered  again, 
that  he  knew  also,  that  the  Lord  Secretary  would 
not  set  his  hand  to  any  petition  that  himself  had  no 
hand  in  composing  and  drawing  up ;  and  besides, 
laid  he,  the  Prince  doth  know  my  Lord  Secretary's 
hand  from  all  the  hands  in  the  world  ;  wherefore  he 
cannot  be  deceived  by  any  pretence  whatever; 
wherefore  my  advice  is,  that  you  go  to  my  Lord, 
and  implore  him  to  lend  you  his  aid :  now  he  did 
yet  abide  in  the  castle  where  all  the  captains  and 
men  at  arms  were. 

£o  (key  heartily  thanked  Mr.  ©odlyfear,  took  his 
counsel  and  did  as  he  had  bidden  them ;  so  they 
went  aud  came  to  my  Lord,  and  made  known  the 
cause  of  their  coming  to  hirn,  to  wit,  that  since  Man- 
soul was  in  so  deplorable  a  condition,  his  highness 
would  be  pleased  to  undertake  to  draw  ap  a  petition 
for  tbemt©  Emmanuel,  the  son  of  the  mighty  Shad- 
dai,  aad*o  their  Ifcing  and  hi&  Father  by  him. 


240  IMB  HOLY  WAK. 

Then  said  the  Secretary  to  tn*w, 
The  Secre-  What  petition  is  it  that  you  would  have 
tary  em-  me  draw  up  for  you  ?  But  they  said 
ployed  to  Our  Lord  knows  best  the  state  and  con- 
draw  up  a  dition  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  how 
petition  for  we  are  backslidden  and  degenerated  in  in 
Mansoul.  the  Prince  ;  thou  also  knowest  who  is 
come  up  to  war  against  us,  and  how 
Mansoul  is  now  the  seat  of  war.  My  Lord  knows 
moreover,  what  barbarous  usage  our  men,  women, 
and  children  have  suffered  at  their  hands :  and  how 
our  homebred  Diabolians  do  walk  new  with  more 
boldness  than  dare  the  townsmen  in  the  streets  of 
Mansoul.  Let  our  Lord  therefore,  according  to 
the  wisdom  of  God  that  is  in  him,  draw  tip  a  peti- 
tion for  his  poor  servants  to  our  Prince  Emmanuel. 
"Well  said  the  Lord  Secretary,  I  will  draw  up  a 
petition  for  you,  and  will  alst,  set  my  hand  thereto. 
Then  said  they,  but  when  shall  we  cajl  for  it  ;t  the 
hand  of  our  Lord?  But  he  answered  Snd  sad, 
Yourselves  must  be  present  at  the  doing  of  it:  yea, 
you  must  put  your  desires  to  it.  True,  the  land, 
and  pen  shall  be  mine,  but  the  ink  and  paper  must 
be  yours,  else  bow  can  you  say  it  is  your  petition  ? 
Nor  have  I  need  to  petition  for  myself,  because  I 
have  not  offended, 

So  they  did  heartily  agree  with  the  sentence  of 
the  Lord,  and  a  petition  was  forthwith 
The  petition  drawn  up  for  them.  But  now  who  should 
drawn  up  carry  it,  that  was  the  next*  But  the  Sec- 
and  sent  to  retary  advised  that  captain  Credeuce 
Emmanuel  should  carry  it,  for  he  was  a  well  spok- 
hy  the  hand  en  man.  They  therefore  called  for  him, 
ef  captain  and  propounded  to  him  the  business, 
Credeme.  Well,  said  the  eaptain,  I  gladly  accept 
of  the  motion,  and  though  I  am  lame,  I 
will  do  this  business  for  you,  with  as  much  speed, 
and  as  well  as  I  can. 

The  contents  of  the  petition  were  to  this  purpose. 

<;0  our  Lord  and  Sovereign  Prince  Era- 

The    ccn-     annuel,  (he  potent,   the  iong-surfering 

twin      cf    Prince  :  grace  is  poured  into  thy  lips, 


THE  HOLY   w*AR.  241 

and  to  thee  belongs   mercy  and  forgive-  their  pcti- 
ness,  though  we  have   rebelled    against  tim. 
thee,     We  who  are  no  more   worthy  to 
be  called  thy  Mansoul,  nor  yet  fit  to  partake  of  com- 
mon benefits,  do    beseech  thee,    and  thy  Father  by 
thee,  to   do  away    our  transgressions.     We  confess 
that  thou  Brightest 'cast  us  away   for  them,   but  do  it 
not  for  thy  name's  sake;  let  the  lord  rather  take  an 
oppo  tu.iiiy  at  our  miserable  condition,  to  let   out 
fe-s  bowels  of  compassion   to  us;  we  are  compassed 
en  ev.ry  side,   Lord,  our   own  backsliding  reprove 
us;     our    Diabolians    within    our   town    fright   us, 
and   the   army    of  the    angel  of  the  bottomless  pit 
distresses  us.     Thy  grace  can    be  our  salvation,  and 
whither  to  go   but  to  thee  we  know  not. 

"  Furthermore,  O  gracious  Prince,  we  have 
weakened  our  captains,  and  they  are  discouraged, 
sick,  and  of  late  some  of  them  greviously  worsted, 
and  beaten  out  of  the  field  by  the  power  aiad  force  of 
the  tyrant.  Yea,  even  those  of  our  captains,  in 
whose  valour  we  did  formerly  use  to  put  most  of 
our  confidence,  they  are  as  wounded  men.  Besides 
Lord,  our  enemies  are  lively,  and  they  are  strong ; 
they  vaunt  and  boast  themselves,  and  do  threaten  to 
part  us  among  themselves  for  a  booty.  They  are 
follen,  aJso  upon  us,  Lord,  with  many  thousand 
Douuters,  such  as  with  whom  we  cannot  tell  what 
to  do;  they  are  all  grim  looked,  and  unmerciful 
ones,  and  they  bid  defiance  to  us  and  thee, 

M  Our  wisdom  is  gone,  our  power  is  gone,  be* 
cause  thou  art  departed  from  us;  nor  have  we  what 
w»  may  call  oujs  hut  sin,  shame,  and  confusion  of 
face  for  sin.  Trike  pity  upon  us.  O  Lord,  take  pity 
upon  us  thy  miserable  town  of  Mansoul,  ana*  save 
us  out  of  the  hands  of  our  enemies.     Amen.51 

This  petition,  as  was  touched  before,  was  banded 
by  the  Lord  Secretary,  and  carried  to  the  court  by 
the  brave  and  most  stout  captain  Credence.  Now 
he  carried  it  out  at  Mouthgate,  for  that,  as  I  said, 
was  the  sally  port  of  the  town,  and  he  went  and  came 
to  Emmanuel  with  it.  Now  how  it  came  out  I  da 
not  know,  but  for  certain  it  did,  and  that  so  far  as  t# 
21 


242  THE  HOLY  WAR, 

reach  the  ears  of  Diabolus.  Thus  I  conclude  be- 
cause that  the  tyrant  had  it  presently  by  the  end, 
and  charged  the  town  of  Mansoul  with  it  saying 
"  Thou  rebellious  and  stubborn  hearted 
Satan  can-  Mansoul,  I  will  make  thee  to  leave  off 
not  abide  petitioning;  art  thou  yet  for  petition- 
prayer.  ing?  I  will  make  thee  to  live."  Fea, 
he  also  knew  who  the  messenger  was 
that  carried  the  petition  to  the  Prince,  and  it  made 
feim  both  fear  and  rage. 

Wherefore  he  commanded  that  his  drum  should 
be  beat  again,  a  thing  that  Mansoul  could  not  abide 
to  hear;  but  when  Diabolus  will  have  his  drum 
fceat,  Mansoul  must  abide  the  noise.  Well,  the  drum 
was  beat,  and  the  Diabolians  were  gathered  together. 

Then  said  Dinbolns,  "  O  ye  stout  Diaholiaus,  be 
it  known  unto  you,  that  there  is  a  treachery  hatched 
against  us  in  the  rebellious  town  of  Mansoul,  for  al- 
beit, the  town  is  in  our  possession,  as  you  see,  yet 
these  miserable  Mansoulians  have  attempted  to  dare 
and  have  been  so  hardy  as  yet  to  send  to  the  court 
to  Emmanuel  for  help.  This  I  give 
Poor  Man-  you  to  understand,  that  ye  may  yet 
soul.  know  how  to  carry  it   to  the  wretched 

town  of  Mansoul.  Wheiefore,  O  my 
trusty  Diabolians,  1  command,  that  yet  more  and 
Bfiore  ye  distress  this  town  of  Mansoul,  and  vex  it 
with  your  wilts,  ravish  their  women,  deflower  their 
virgins,  slay  their  children,  brain  their  ancients,  fire 
their  town,  and  wh*t  other  mischief  you  can,  and 
let  this  be  the  reward  of  the  Mansoulians  from  me, 
Cor  their  desperate   rebellions  against  me." 

This  you  see  was  the  charge,  but  something  stept 
in  betwixt  that  and  execution,  for  as  yet  there  waj 
but  little  more  done  than  to  rage. 

Moreover,  when  Diabolus  had  done  thus,  he  went 
the  next  day  up  to  the  castle  gates,  and  demanded 
that  upon  pain  of  death,  the  gates  should  be  opened 
to  him,  and  that  entrance  should  be  given  him  and 
his  men  that  followed  after ;  to  whom  Mr.  Godly  fear 
replied,  (for  he  it  was  that  had  the  charge  of  the 
gate)  "  That  the  gate  should  not  be  opened  to  him. 


THE  HOLY  AVAR.  24S 

aor  to  the  men  that  followed  after  him." 
He  said  moreover  "  That  Mansoul  when  Satan  can- 
she   had    suffered    a   while,    should    be  not      abicls 
Blade  perfect,  strengthened  and  settled."  faith. 
Then  said  Diabolus,  "  Deliver  me  then 
the  men  that  have  petitioned  against  me,  especially 
captain  Credence  that  carried  it  to  your  Prince,  de- 
liver that   varlet  into  my  hands,  and  I  will   depart 
from  the  town." 

Then  up   starts  a   Diabolian,  whose  Mr.    Fool- 
name  wa3  Mr.  Fooling,  and  said,  "My  ing\ 
lord  offereth  you  fair,  'tis  better  for  you 
that  one  man  perish,  than  that  your  whole  Mansoul 
should  be  undone." 

But  Mr.  Godlyfear  made  him  this  replication, 
*  How  long  will  Mansoul  be  kept  out  of  the  dun- 
geon, when  she  has  given  up  her  faith  to  Diabolus  ? 
As  good  lose  the  town  as  lose  captain  Credence,  for 
if  one  be  gone  the  other  must  follow."  But  to  that 
Mr.  Fooling  said  nothing. 

Then  did  my  lord  mayor  reply,  and 
said,  "  O  thou  devouring  tyrant,  be  it  Diabolu$ 
known  to  thee,  we  shall  hearken  lo  none  rages. 
of  thy  words.  We  are  resolved  to  resist 
thee  as  long  as  a  captain,  a  man,  asiing,  and  a  sfone 
to  throw  at  thee,  shall  be  found  in  the  town  of  Man- 
soul." But  Diabolus  answered,  "  Do  you  hope, 
do  you  wait,  do  you  look  for  help  and  deliverance  ? 
You  have  sent  to  Emmanuel,  but  your  wickedness 
stieks  too  close  in  your  skins  to  let  innocent  prayers 
come  out  of  your  tips.  Think  you  that  you  shall  be 
prevailers,  and  prospep  in  this  design  ?  You  wiil 
fail  in  your  wish, you  will  fail  in  your  attempts;  for 
'tis  not  only  I  but  your  Emmanuel  is  against  you. 
Yea,  it  is  he  that  hath  sent  me  against  you  to  sub- 
due you ;  for  what  theri  do  you  hope,  or  by  what 
means  wiil  you  escape  ?" 

Then  said  the  lord  mayor, "  We  have  The     lord 
sinned  indeed,  but  that  shall  be  no  help  mayor's 
to  thee,  for  our  Emmanuel  hath  said  it,  speech  just 
and   that  in  great  faithfulness,  And  him  at  the  time 
#hat  cometh  to  me,  1  will  in  no  wise  cast  of  the  nr- 


244  #HE  HOLY   VTAR, 

gi 

turn         ef  out.     He  hath  also  told  us   (0  our  ewe- 
captain  my  !)  that  all  manner  of  sin  and  blasphe- 

Credcnce.      my  shall  be  forgiven  to  the  sons  of  men. 

Therefore  we  dare  not  despair,  but  will' 
look  for,  wait  for,  and  hope  for  deliverance  still. 

Now  by  this  time  captain  Credence  was  return- 
ed, and  came  from  the  court  of  Emmanuel  to  the 
castle  of  Mansoul,  and  he  returned  to  them  with  a 
packet.  So  my  lord  mayor  hearing  that  captain 
Credence  was  come,  withdrew  himself  from  the 
noise  of  the  roaring  of  the  tyrant,  and  left  him  to 
yell  at  the  wall  of  the  town,  or  against  the  gates  of 
the  castle.  So  he  came  up  to  the  captain's  lodg- 
ings, and  saluted  him  ;  he  asked  of  him  his  welfare, 
and  what  was  the  best  news  at  court?  But  whea 
he  asked  captain  Credence  that,  the  water  stood  in 
his  eyes.  Then  said  the  captain,  cheer  up,  my  lord, 
fbr  all   will  be  well  in  time ;  and   with  that  he  first 

produced  his  packet,  and  laid  it  by  ;  but 
A  sign  cf  that  the  lord  mayor,  and  the  rest  of  the 
goodness,      captains  took  for  a  sign  of  good  tidings. 

(Now  a  season  of  grace  being  come,  he 
sent  for  all  the  captains  and  elders  of  the  town* 
that  were  here  and  there  in  their  lodgings  in  the 
castle,  and  upon  their  guard,  to  let  them  know  that 
captain  Credence  was  returned  from  the  court,  and 
that  he  had  something  in  general,  and  something 
in  special  to  c  uimunicate  to  them.)  So  they  all 
eame  up  to  him,  and  saluted  him,  and  asked  him 
concerning  his  journey,  and  likewise  what  was  the 
best  news  at  court  ?  and  he  answered  them  as  he  had 
done  the  lord  mayor  before,  that  all  would  be  well 

at  last.  Now  when  the  captain  had  thus 
The  packet  saluted  them,  he  opened  the  packet,  and 
QpeneeL  thence   did  draw  out  his  several  qotes 

for  those  he  had  sent  for.     And  the  first 

aote  was  for  my  lord  mayor,  wherein  was  signified  : 

"That   the  Prince  Emmanuel   had  taken  it  well, 

that  my  lord  mayor  had  been  so  true  and 
A  note  for  trusty  in  his  office,  and  the  great  con- 
my  lord  cern  that  lay  upon  him  for  the  town  and 
mayor*         people  of  MansQul.     Also  he  bid  him  t« 


THE  HOLY  If  Aft.  2  \5 

knew,  that  he  took  it  well  that  he  had  been  so  bold 
for  his  Prince  Emmanuel,  and  had  engaged  so  faith- 
fully in  his  cause  against  Diabolus.  He  also  signi- 
fied it  the  close  of  his  letter,  that  he  should  shortly 
receive  his  reward." 

The  second  note  that  came  out  was 
for  the  noble  lord  Will  he  will,  wherein  A  note  for 
there  was  signified,  "  That  his  Prince  the  lord 
Emmanuel  did  well  understand  how  val-  WillbcwilL 
ianj  and  courageous  he  had  been  for  the 
honour  of  his  Lord,  now7  in  his  absence,  and  when 
his  name  was  under  contempt  by  Diabolus.  Then 
was  signified  also,  that  his  Prince  had  taken  it  well, 
that  he  had  been  so  faithful  to  the  town  of  Mansoul, 
in  his  keeping  of  so  strict  a  hand  and  *ye  over,  and 
so  strict  a  rein  upon  the  necks  of  the  Diabolians, 
that  did  still  lie  lurking  in  thesereral  holes,  in  the 
famous  town  of  Mansoul." 

"  He  signified  moreover,  how  that  he  understood 
that  my  lord  had,  with  his  own  hand,  done  great 
execution  upon  some  of  the  chief  of  the  rebels  there, 
te  the  great  discouragement  of  the  adverse  party, 
and  to  the  good  example  of  the  whole  town  of  VI  m- 
sonl,  and  that  shortly  his  lordship  should  have  his 
reward." 

The  third  note  came  out  for  the  sub- 
ordinate preacher,  wherein    was   signifi-  A  note  for 
ed,  "  That  his   Prince  took  it  well  from  the     subcr* 
him,  that  he  had  so  honestly,  and  so  faith-  dinaic 
fully  performed  his  office,  and  executed  preacher. 
the  trust  committed  to  him  by  his  Lord, 
while  he   exhorted,   rebuked,  and  forewarned   Mat* 
soul  according  to  the  Jaws  of  the  town.     He  signifi- 
ed moreover,  that  he  took  well  at  his  hand,  thd  he 
ealled  to  fasting,  to  sackcloth  and  ashes,  when  Man- 
soul  was  under  her  revolt.     Also,  that  he  called  for 
the    aid   of  the   captain    Boanerges   to    he!p   in   so 
weighty  a  work,  and  that  shortly  he  also  should  re- 
ceive his  reward. 

The  fourth  note  came  out  for  Mr.  God- 
Ivfear,  wherein  his  Lord    thus  signified,  A   note  for 
crThat  bis  Lordship  observed,  that  he  Mr.     Go& 
21* 


24$  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

lyfear.  was  the  first  of  all  the  men  in  Mansoul 

that  detected  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  as 
the  only  one  that,  though  his  suMiliry  and  cunning, 
had  obtained  for  Diabolus  a  defection  and  decay  of 
goodness  in  the  blessed  town  of  Mansoul.  More- 
over, his  Lordship  gave  him  to  understand,  that  he 
still  remembered  his  tears  and  mourning  for  the 
state  of  Mansoul.  It  was  atso  observed,  by  the 
same  v\"*\p,  that  his  Lord  took  notice  of  his  detect- 
ing of  this  Mr.  Carnal  Security,  at  his  own  table, 
among  his  guests*  in  his  own  house,  and  that  in  the 
nanist  of  his  jollmess,  even  when  he  whs  seeking 
to  perfect  his  villainies  against  the  town  of  Man- 
soul. Emmanuel  also  took  notice,  that  this  r.'V* 
ereud  person.  Mr,  Godly  fear,  siood  stoutly  to  it  at 
the  gates  of  the  castle,  against  all  the  threats  and 
attempts  of  the  tyrant,  and  that  he  had  put  the 
townsmen  in  a  way  to  make  their  petition  to  their 
Pripce,  so  as  that  he  tmght  accept  thereof,  and  that 
they  might  obtain  an  answer  of  peace ;  and  that 
therefore,  shortly,  he  should  receive  his  reward. 
After  all  this,  there  was  yet  produced  a  note 
which  was  written  to  the  whole  town  of 
A  note  for  Mansoul,  hereby  they  perceived,  'That 
the  town  of  their  Lord  took  notice  of  their  so  often 
Mansoul.  repeating  of  petitions  to  him  and  that 
they  should  see  more  of  the  fruits  of 
fuch  their  doings  in  time  to  con?e.  Their  Prince 
did  also  therein  tell  them.  That  he  took  it  well 
that  their  heart  and  mind,  now  at  last,  abode  fixed 
«pon  him  and  his  ways,  though  Diabolus  had  made 
auch  inroads  upon  them,  and  that  neither  flatteriea 
on  the  one  hand  nor  hardships  on  the  other,  could 
make  them  yield  to  his  cruel  designs,"  There  was 
also  inserted  at  the  bottom  of  this  note."  That  hi§ 
Lordship  had  left  the  town  of  Mansoul  in  the  handi 
#f  the  Lord  Secretary,  and  under  the  conduct  o£ 
captain  Credence,  saying,  Beware  that  you  yet 
yield  yourselves  unto  their  governance,  and  in  due 
time  you  shall  receive  your  reward." 
Captain  80  after  the  brave  captain   Credence 

$redmc$      bad  delivered  bis  aotea    to  thore  t» 


THE  HOLY  WAR,  I» 

whom  they  belonged,  tie  retire.!  himself  retires      to 
fo  my   Lord    Secretary's    lodgings.  nm\  ths        bri 
there  spends   i'urte   in   conversi  ag    with  Swiary's 
him;  for  tney  two  Wore  very   great  oue  lodgings. 
With  another,  and  did  indeed  kno*  more 
how  things  would  go  in  Mansoul.  than  did   all    th# 
town  besides.      The  lord  Secretary   also    loved   the 
captain  Credence  dearly  ;  yea.  many  a  good  hit  was 
sent  him  from  my  lord's  table  ;  also  he  might  have  a 
shew  of  countenance   when  the  rest  of  Mansoul  lay 
under  the  c'ouds;  so  after  some  time  for  converse 
was  spent,   the  captain  betook   himself  to  Irs  cham- 
bers   to   rest.     But  it   was   not   long  after,  but  mjr 
Lord  did  send  for  the  captain  again  ;  so  the  captain 
came  to  him,  and  they  greeted  one  another  with  the 
usdal  salutations.      Then  said  the  captain  to  the  lord 
Secretary,  What   hath  my  Lord   to  say   to  his  ser- 
vaut  ?  So  the  Lord  Secretary  took  him  and  laid  him 
aside,  and  after  a  sign   or  two  of  more  favour,  he 
said,  u  1  have  made  thee  the  lord  lieutenant  over  all 
the  forces  in  Mansoul ;  so  that  from  this* 
day  forward,  all  men   in  Mansoul   shall     Captain 
be  at  thy   command,  and   thou  shalt  be     Cr  dence 
he  that  shalt  lead  in,  and  that  shalt  lead     made    the 
out  Mansoul ;  thou  shalt  therefore  man-     lord  lieu- 
age,  according  to  thy  place,  the   war  for     tenant 
thy  Prince,  and  for  the  town  of  Mansoul     over      all 
against  the  force  and  power  of  Diaholus,     the  forces 
at   thy   command  shall   the  rest  of  the     in     Man- 
captains  be.  soul. 

Now  the  townsmen  began  to  perceive  wiaat  inter- 
est the  captain  had,  both  with  the  court,  and  also 
with  the  Lord  Secretary  in  Mansoul ;  for  no  man 
before  could  speed  when  sent,  nor  bring  suoh  good 
news  from  Emmanuel  as  he  ;  wherefore  what  do 
they,  after  some  lamentation,  (they  made  no  more 
use  of  him  in  their  dresses)  but  send,  by  their  sub- 
ordinate preacher  to  the  Lord  Secretary,  to  desire 
kirn,  that  all  that  ever  they  were  worth,  and  had, 
might  be  put  under  the  government,  care,  custody, 
and  conduct  of  captain  Credence. 

So  their  preacher  went  and  did  his  errand*  and 


2&  THE  nOLY  WAlt. 

received  this  answer  from  the  alouth  of 
The  town  his  Lord,  that  captain  Credence  should 
ofMansoid  he  the  a;reat  doer  in  the  Kind's  army 
craves  that  against  the  King's  enemies,  and  also  for 
she  maybe  the  welfare  of  Munsoul.  So  he  bowed 
undrr  the  himself  to  the  ground,  and  thanked  his 
conduct  of  Lordship,  and  returned  and  told  his  news 
captain  to  the  townsfolk.  But  all  this  was  doae 
Credence,  with  all  imaginable  seer*  sy,  because  the 
foes  had  yet  great  strength  in  the  town. 
But,  To  return  to  our  story  again  :  When  Diab* 
el'is  saw  himself  thus  boldly  confronted  by  the  Lord 
Mayor,  and  perceived  the  stoutness  of  Mr.  Godly- 
fear,  he  fell  into  a  rage,  and  forthwith 
Diabclus  called  a  council  of  war,  that  he  might 
rages.  be  revenged   on   Mansoul.     So  all  the 

princes  of  the  pit  came  together,  and 
old  Incredulity  on  the  head  of  them,  with  all  the 
captains  of  his  army.  So  they  consult  what  to  do: 
cow  the  effect  and  conclusion  of  the  council  that 
day  was  how  they  might  take  the  castle,  because 
they  could  not  conclude  themselves  masters  of  the 
town,  so  long  as  that  was  in  the  possession  of  their 
enemies.  So  one  advised  this  way,  and  another  ad- 
vised that ;  but  when  they  could  not  agree  in  their 
verdict,  Apoilyon,  that  president  of  the  council  stood 
up,  and  thus  he  began:  "My  brotherhood  (quoth 
he)  I  have  two  things  to  propound  unto  you,  and  my 
first  is  this.  Let  us  withdraw  ourselves  from  the 
town  into  the  plain  again,  for  our  presence  here 
will  do  us  no  good  because  the  castle  is  yet  in  our 
enemies'  hands,  nor  is  it  possible  that  we  should  take 
that,  so  long  as  so  many  brave  captains  are  in  it, 
and  that  this  bold  fellow  Godiyfear  is  made  keeper 
©f  the  gates  of  it. 

"Now  when  we  have  withdrawn  ourselves  into 
the  plain,  they  of  their  own  accord  will  be  glad  of 
some  little  ease,  and  it  may  be,  of  their  own  accord, 
they  again  may  be  remiss,  and  even  their 
Look  to  it  so  being,  will  give  them  a  greater  blow 
Mansoul.  than  we  can  possibly  give  them  our- 
selves. But  H"  that  should  fail,  qut  geiag 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  24t 

forth  of  the  town  may  draw  the  captains  out  after  us 
and  you  know  what  it  cost  them,  when  we  fought 
them  in  the  field  hefore.  B«  sides,  can  we  hut  draw 
them  out  into  the  field,  we  may  lay  an  ambush  he- 
hind  the  town,  which  shall,  when  they  are  come 
forth  abroad,  rush  in  and  take  possession  of  the  cas- 
tle." But  Beelzebub  stood  up  and  replied,  saying, 
"  It  is  impossible  to  draw  them  all  off  from  the  cas- 
tle ;  some  you  may  be  sure  will  lie  there  to  keep 
that ;  wherefore  it  will  be  vain  thus  to  attempt,  un- 
less we  was  sure  they  would  come  out."  He  there- 
fore concluded,  "That  what  was  done  must  be  done 
by  some  other  means."  And  the  most  likely  means 
that  the  greatest  of  their  heads  could  invent,  wai 
that  which  Apollyon  had  advised  to  before,  to  wit, 
To  get  the  townsmen  again  to  sin.  4i  For,  said  he, 
it  is  not  our  being  in  the  town,  nor  in 
the  field,  nor  our  fighting,  nor  our  killing  Look  to  it 
ef  their  men,  that  can  make  us  the  roas-  MansouL 
ters  of  Mansoul ;  for  so  long  as  one  in 
the  town  is  able  to  lift  up  his  finger  against  us,  Em- 
manuel will  take  their  parts,  and  if  he  shall  take 
their  parts,  we  know  what  time  a  day  it  is  with  us. 
Wherefore,  for  my  part  (quoth  he)  there  is,  in  my 
judgment,  no  way  to  bring  them  into  bondage  to  us, 
like  inventing  a  wTay  to  make  them  sin. 
Had  we,  said  he,  left  ail  our  Doubters  at  2  Pet.2.  18 
home,  we  had  done  as  well  *hs  we  have  19,  20,  21. 
done  now,  unless  we  could  have  made 
them  the  masters  and  governours  of  the  castle  ;  for 
Doubters  at  a  distance,  are  but  like  objections  re- 
pelled with  arguments.  Indeed  can  we  but  get 
them  into  the  hold,  and  make  them  possessors  of 
that,  the  day  will  be  our  own.  Let  us  therefore 
withdraw  ourselves  into  the  plain,  (not  expecting 
that  the  captains  in  Mansoul  should  follow  us)  but 
yet,  1  say*,  let  us  do  (his,  and  before  we  do  so,  let  us 
advise  with  onr  trusty  Diabolians  that  are  yet  in 
their  holes  in  Mansoul,  and  set  them  to  work  to  be- 
tray  the  town  to  us;  for  they  indeed  must  do  it,  or 
it  will  he  left  undone  forever."  By  these  sayings  of 
B««latbub,  (tor  I  think  it  was  he  that  gave  this  cou*r 


-25a  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

ael)  the  whole  conclave  was  (breed  t# 
Look  to  it  be  of  this  opinion,  to  wit,  That  the  way 
MansoUL      to  get  to  the  castle  wns  to  get  the  towa 

to  sin.  Then  they  fell  to  ikventing  by 
what  means  they  might  do  this  thing. 

Their  Lucifer  stood  up  and  said,  •«  The  counsel  of 
Beelzebub  is  pertinent:  now  the  way  to  bring;  this 
to  pass,  in  my  opinion,  is  this  ;  Let  us  withdraw 
our  force  from  the  town  of  Mansoul,  let  us  do  this, 
and  let  us  terrify  them  no  more,  either  with  sum- 
mons or  threats,  or  with  the  noise  of  our  drum,  or 
any  other  awakening  means.  Only  let  us  lie  in  the 
field  at  a  distance,  and  be  as  we  regarded  them  not, 
(for  frights,  I  see,  do  but  awaken  them,  and  make 
ihem  stand  more  to  their  arms.)  I  have  also  another 
stratagem  in  my  head,  which  is  this  ;  You  know 
Mansoul  is  a  market  town,  and  a  town  that  delight* 
in  commerce  ?  what  therefore,  if  some  of  our  Dia- 
bolians  shall  feign  themselves  far  countrymen,  and 
shall  go  out  and  bring  to  the  market  of  Mansoul 
some  of  our  wares  to  sell,  and  what  matter  at  what 
rates  they  sell  their  wares,  though  it  be  but  for 
half  the  worth.  Now  let  those  that  yet  9hall  trad* 
in  their  market,  be  those  that  are  witty  and  true  to 
us,  and  1  will  lay  my  crown  to  pawn,  it  will  do. 
There  are  two  that  are  come  to  my  thoughts  already, 
that  I  think  will  be  arch  at  this  work,  and  they  aid 
Mr.  Penny-wife,  Pouud-foolish,  and  Mr.  Getith'- 
hundred  and  Losieth'-shire ;  nor  is  this  man  with  the 
long  name  at  all  inferior  to  the  other.  What  also 
if  you  join  with  them  Mr.  Sweet-world  and  Mr. 
Present-good,  they  are  men  that  are  civil  and  cun- 
ning, but  our  true   friends   and  helpers.     Let  those, 

with  as  many  more  engage  in  this  busi- 
Look  to  it  ness  for  us,  and  let  Mansoul  be  taken  up 
Mansoul.      in  much  bushes  and  let  them  grow  full 

and  rich ;  and  this  is  the  way  to  get 
ground  of  them :  remember  ye  not,  that  thu3  we  pre- 
vailed upon  Laodecea,  and  how  many  at  present  do 
we  hold  iu  this  snare?  Now  when  they  begin  i% 
grow  full,  they  will  forget  their  misery,  and  if  we 
•hall  aot  affright  them,  tiiey  may   happen  to  fall  a* 


MEE  HOBY  WAR.  251 

sleep,  and  bo  be  got  to  neglect  their  town  watch, 
their  castle  watch,  as  well  as  their  watch  at  the 
gates. 

"  Yea,  may  we  not  by  this  means  so  cumber  Man- 
#oul  with  abundance,  that  they  shall  he  forced  to 
m  ike  of  their  castle  a  warehouse,  instead  of  a  gar- 
rison fortified  against  us,  and  a  receptacle  for  men 
of  war.  Thus  if  we  get  our  goods  and  commodities 
thither,  I  reckon  the  castle  is  more  than  half  ours. 
Besides,  could  we  so  order  it,  that  it  should  be  til- 
led with  such  kind  of  wares,  then  if  we  made  a  sud- 
den assault  upon  them,  it  would  be  hard  for  the 
captains  to  take  shelter  there.  Do  you 
not  know  that  of  the  parable,  "The  de-  LukeS.  14* 
eeitfulnees  of  riches  choak  the  word :"  chap  21. 
and  again,  When  the  heart  is  over  char-  34.  35.  37. 
ged  with  surfeiting  and  drunkenness,  and 
the  cares  of  this  life,  all  mischiefs  come  upon  them 
unawares. 

"  Furthermore,  my'  lords,  (quoth  he)  you  very 
Well  know  ttiaf  it  »s  not  easy  for  a  people  to  he  filled 
with  our  things,  and  not  to  have  some  of  our  Dia- 
bolians  as  ret  liners  to  their  houses  hnd  service*. 
Where  is  a  Mansoulian  that  is  full  of  th.s  world, 
that  hag  not  for  h*s  servants  and  waiting  raen  Mr. 
Profuse,  or  Mr.  Prodigality,  or  some  other  of  our 
Piaholian  gang,  as  Mr.  Voluptuous,  Mr.  Pragmat- 
ical, Mr.  Ostentation,  or  the  like?  Now  these  can 
take  the  castle  of  Mansoul,  or  I  low  it  up,  or  make 
it  unfit  for  a  garrison  for  Emmanuel,  and  any  of 
these  will  do.  Yea,  th^se,  for  ought  I  know,  may- 
do  it  for  ui  sooner  than  an  army  of  twenty  thousand 
men.  Wherefore,  to  end  as  I  began,  my  advice  is, 
that  we  quietly  withdraw  ourselves,  not  offering 
any  further  force,  or  forcible  attempt  upon  the  cas- 
tle, at  least  at  this  present  time,  and  let  us  set  on 
foot  our  new  project,  and  let  us  see  if  that  will  not 
make  them  destroy  themselves." 

This  advice  was  highly  applauded  by  them  all, 
and  w  s  accounted  the  very  master-piece  of  hell,  to 
wit,  "To  choak  Mansoul  with  a  fullness  of  this 
world,  and  to  surfeit  her  heart  with  the  good  thingf 


2KB  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

thereof."  But  see  how  things   meet  together;  just 

as  this  Diabolian  council  was  broken  up 
Captain  captain  Credence  receives  a  letter  i'vom 
Credence  Emmanuel,  the  contents  of  which  tffts 
receives  thus;  "  That,  upon  the  third  day,  he 
that  from  would  meet  them  in  the  fields  of  the 
his  Prince  plains  about  Mansoul."  Meet  me  in 
which  he  the  fields  (quoth  the  captain)  What 
understan-  meaneth  my  Lord  by  this?  I  know  not 
dtth  not.       what  he   meaneth  by   meeting  of  m^  in 

the  field.  So  he  took  the  note  in  his 
hand,  and  did  cany  it  to  my  Lord  Secretary,  to  ask 
his  thoughts  thereupon,  (for  my  Lord  was  a  Seerf 
in  all  matters  concerning  the  king,  and  also  for 
the  good  and  comfort  of  the  town  of  Mansoul.) 
So  he  shewed  my  Lord  the  note,  and  desired  his 
•pinion  thereof.  For  my  part,  quoth  captain  Cre- 
dence, 1  knew  not  the  meaning  thereof.  So  my 
lord  did  take  and  read  it,  and  after  a  liule  pause,  he 

Sriid,  "  The  Diabolians  have  had  against 
The  riddle  Mansoul  a  great  consultation  to  day  ; 
expounded  they  have,  I  say,  this  day  been  contriv- 
to  captain  ing  the  utter  ruin  of  the  town  ;  and  the 
Credence,      result  of  their  council  is,  to  set  Mansoul 

in  such  a  way,  which,  if  taken,  will  sure- 
ly make  her  destroy  herself.  And  to  this  end, 
they  are  making  ready  for  their  own  departure  out 
of  the  town,  intending  to  betake  themselves  to  the 
field  again,  and  there  to  lie,  till  they  shall  see  whe- 
ther this  their  project  will  take  or  not.  But  be 
thou  ready  with  the  men  of  thy  Lord,  for  on  the 
third  day  they  will  he  in  the  plain,  there  t©  fall 
upon  the  Diabolians ;  for  the  Prince  will,  by  that 
time,  be  in  the  field  ;  yea,  by  that  it  is  break  of  i\ny, 
sun  rising,  or  before,  and  that  with  a  mighty  force 
against  them.  So  he  shall  be  before  them,  and 
thou  shalt  be  behind  them,  and  betwixt  you  both 
their  army  shall  he  desired." 

When    captain   Credence    heard  litis,  away  goes 
he  to  the  rest  of  the  captains,  and  tells  thera  what 

a  note  he  bad,  a  wh  !e  since,  received 
Whe  cap-      from   the   haw!  of  LumianueL       And* 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  2^3 

•aid  he,  that   which  was    dark    therein,  tains  are 
hjs  my    Lord,   the  Lord    Secretary,  ex-  glad  to 
pounded  unto  me.     He  told  them  more-  har. 
over,    what    by    himself  and    by    them 
mast    be  done   to  ansvv- r  the   mia&of  their  Lord. 
Then  were  the  captains  glaM,  and  captain  Credence 
comm  tnded,   that  ail    the    King's  trumpeters  should 
ascend  to  the  battlements  of  the  castle,  and  there, 
in  the  aud»ence  of  Diabolus,  and  of  the  whole  town 
of  Mansoul,  m'tke  the  best  music  that  the  heart  cou<j 
invent.     The  trumpeters  then  did  as  they  comman- 
ded.    They   got    themselves    up   to  the  top  of  the 
castle  and  thus  they  began  to  sound ;  then  did  Diab* 
olus   start,  and   said,   What  can  be  the 
meaning  of  this,  they  neither  sound  Boot  Curious 
and  Saddle,  nor  Horse  and  away,  nor  a  music 
Charge,   What  do  these  mad  men  mean,  mads  by 
that  yet   they   should   be  so  merry  and  the  trum- 
glad  ?  Then  answered  one  of  themselves,  peters. 
and  said,    This   is  joy   that  the  Prince 
Emmanuel   is  coming  to  relieve    the  town  of  Man- 
soul  ;  that,  to  this  end,  he  is  at  the  head  of  an  army, 
and  that  this  relief  is  near. 

The  men  of  Mansoul  also  were  greatly  concern- 
ed  at  this  melodious    charm  of  the  trumpets  ;  they 
said,  yea,  they  answered  one  another,  saying,  this 
«an  be   no  harm  to  us.     Then  said  the  Diabolians, 
what  had  we  best  to  do  ?  And   it   was  answered,  it 
was  best  to  quit  the    town;   and  that,   said  one,  yoa 
may  do  in  pursuance  of  your  last  counsel,  and  by* 
so  doing,  be  better   able  to    give  the   enemy  battle, 
should  an  army  from   without   come   upon  us.     So 
on  the  second  day    they  withdrew   themselves  from 
Mansoul,  and   abode  in  the  plains  with- 
out, but  they  encamped    themselves  be-  Diabolm 
fore  Eye-gate*  in  what  terrene  and  ter-  withdratvs 
rible  manner   they   could.     The  reason  from    the 
why  they    would  not  abide  in  the  town  town    and 
(besides  the  reasons  that  were  debated  way. 
in  the  conclave)  was  for  that  they  were 
not  possessed  of  the  strong  hold,  and  because,  saki 
they,  we  shall  have  more  convenieacy  to  iigbtj  aa4 
22 


f54  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

also  to  fly,  if  need  be,  when  we  are  encamped  in  thfc 
open  plains.  Besides,  the  town  would  have  been  a 
pit  for  them,  rather  than  a  place  of  defence,  had 
the  Prince  come  up  and  enclosed  them  fast  there- 
in. Therefore  they  betook  themselves  to  the  field, 
that  they  might  also  be  out  of  the  reach  of  their 
slings,  by  which  they  were  much  annoyed,  ail  the 
while  that  they  were  in  the  town. 

Well,  the  lime  that  the  captains  were   to  fall  up- 
*  on  the  Diabolians  being  come,  they  ea- 

The  time  gerly  prepared  themselves  for  action  ; 
come  for  the  for  captain  Credence  had  toid  the  cap- 
captains  to  tains  over  night,  that  they  should  meet 
fight  them,  their   Prince   in    the   field    to-morrow. 

This  therefore  made  them  yet  far 
more  desirous  to  be  engaging  the  enemy  :  "  For 
you  bhall  see  the  Prince  in  the  field  to-morrow," 
was  like  oil  to  flaming  fire;  for  a  long  time  they 
had  been  at  a  distance  :  they  therefore  were  for  this 
the  more  earnest  and  desirous  of  the  work.  So, 
as  1  said,  the  hour  being  come,  captain  Credence, 
with  the    rest  of  the    men  of  war,  drew   out    their 

forces  before  it  was  day,  by  the  sally- 
They  draw  port  of  the  town.  And  being  all  ready 
out  into  the  captain  Credence  went  up  to  the  head 
field.  of  the  army,  and  gave  to  the  rest  of  the 

captains  the  word,  and  so  they  to  their 
under  officers  and  soldiers,  the  word    was,   k<  The 

sword  of  the  Prince  Emmanuel,  and 
The  word,     the  shield  of  captain  Credence,"  which 

is  in  the  Mansoulian  tongue  "  The 
word  of  God  and  faith."  Then  the  captains  fell  on, 
and  begun  roundly  to  front  and  flank,  and  rear  Di- 
abolus's  camp. 

Now  they  left  captain  Experience  in  the  town, 
because  he  was  yet  ill  of  his  wounds  which  the  Di- 
abolians had  given  him  in  his  last  fight.  But  when 
he  perceived  that  the  captains  were  at  it,  what 
does  he,  but  calling  for  his  crutches  with  haste 
gets  up  and  away  he  goes  to  the  bat- 
Captain  Ex-  tie,  saying,  Shall  I  lie  here,  when  my 
perience  will  brethren  are  in    the  fight,  and   when 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  255 

Emmanuel  the  Prince  will  shew  him-  fight  for  his 
seif  in  the  field  to  his  servants?  But  Prince  upon 
when  the  enemy  saw  the  man  come  his  crutch- 
with  his  crutches,  they  were  daunted  es. 
yet  the  more,  for  thought  they,  what 
spirit  has  possessed  these  Mansoulians,  that  they 
fight  us  upon  their  crutches.  Wei!,  the  captains, 
as  I  said  fell  on,  and  did  braveljr  handle  their  wea- 
pons, still  crying  out  and  shouting  as  they  laid  on 
blows,  ".The  sword  of  the  Prince  Emmanuel,  the 
shield  of  Captain  Credence." 

Now  when  Diabolus  saw  that  the  captains  were 
come  out,    and    that  so  valiantly    they 
surrounded    his    men,     he     concluded  The  battle 
(that   for    the    present,)    nothinjg   from  joined. 
them  was  to  be    looked   for   but   blows, 
and,  the  dints  of  their  two  edged  swords. 

Wherefore  he   falls  on  upon   the  Prince's  army, 
with  all  his  deadly  force.     So  the  battle  was  joined. 
Now  who  was  it  that  at  first  Diabolus  met  with  in 
the  iighi,  but  captain    Credence  on  the  one   hand, 
and  the  Lord  Willbewill  on  the  other; 
now  WillbewilPs    blows   were  like  the  Willbewill 
blows  of  a  giant,   for  that    man  had  a  engaged. 
strong  arm;  he  fell   upon  the  Election- 
doubters,  for  they   were  the   life-guard  of  Diabolus, 
and  he  kept  them  in  play  a  good  while,  cutting  and 
battering  shrewdly.      Now   when  cap- 
tain   Credence   saw  my   Lord  engaged,  Credence 
he  did   stoutly   fall   on  upon    the  other  engaged. 
hand,  and   on  the  same    company  also; 
so    they   put    them    to   great   disorder.  Goodhcpe 
Now   captain    Goodhope   had   engaged  engaged. 
the  Vocation  doubters,    and  they    also 
were   sturdy    men ;  but  the  captain   was  a  valiant 
man.     Captain  Experience  did  also  send  him  some 
aid,   so    he    made    the    Vocation  doubters   retreat. 
The  rest  of  the  armies   were    wholly    engaged,  and 
that  on   every    side,   and  the    Diaholians  did  fight 
stoutly.     Then  did  my  Lord  Secretary  command, 
that  the  slings  from  the  castle  should  be 
played  and  his  men  should  throw  stones  The  Lord 


25%  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Secretary      at  an  hair's  breadth.     But  after  a  while, 
engaged.       those    that  were    made  to  fly  before  the 
captains  of  the  Prince  did  begin  to  rally 
again,  and    they    came  up  stoutly  upon  the   rear  of 
the    Prince's    army;  wherefore   the    Prince's  army 
began  to  faint ;  but   remembering  that 
The  battle    they  should  see  the  face  of  their  Prinee 
renewed,       by   and  by,   they    took    courage,  and  a 
Afieree        very   fierce   battle  was    fought.     Then 
jigM.  shouted    the    captains,    saying,    "  The 

sword  of  the  Prince  Emmanuel,  and  the 
shield  of  captain  Credence ;"  and  with  that  Diab- 
olus  gave  back,  thinking  that  more  aid  had  been 
come.  But  no  Emmanuel,  as  yet,  appeared.  Moreo- 
ver, the  battle  did  hang  in  doubt ;  and 
They  both  they  made  a  little  retreat  on  both  sides. 
retreat.  Now  in  the  time  of  respite  captain  Cre- 

dence bravely  engaged  his  men  to  stand 
to  it,  and  Diabolus  did  the  like,  as  well  as  he  could, 
But  captain  Credence  made  a  brave  speech  to  hU 
soldiers,  the  contents  whereof  here  follows : 

"Gentlemen  soldiers,  and  my  brethren  in  this 
design,  it  rejoiceth  me  much  to  see  in 
Captain  the  held,  for  our  Prince  this  day,  so 
Credence  stout  and  so  valiant  an  army,  and  such 
makes  a  faithful  lovers  of  Mansoul.  You  have 
speech  fo  hitherto,  as  hath  become  you,  shewn 
his  soldiers,  .yourselves  men  of  truth  and  courage  a- 
gainst  the  Diabolian  forces,  so  that  for 
all  their  boast,  they  have  not  yet  much  cause  to 
boast  of  4heir  get  tings.  Now  take  to  yourselves 
your  wonted  courage,  and  shew  yourselves  men, 
even  this  once  only ;  for  in  a  few  matters  after  the 
next  engagement,  this  time,  you  shall  see  your 
Prince  shew  himself  in  the  field;  for  we  must  make 
this  second  assault  upon  the  tyrant  Diabolus,  and 
then  Emmanuel  comes." 

No  sooner  had  the  captain  made  this  speech  to 
his  soldiers,  but  one  Mr.  Speedy  came  post  to  the 
eaptain  from  the  Prince,  to  tell  him,  that  Emman- 
uel was  at  hand.  This  news,  when  the  captains 
fead  received,  he  communicated   to  the  other  field 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  25* 

effieers,  and  they  again  to  their  soldiers  and  men  of 
war.  Wherefore  like  men  raised  from  the  dead, 
so  the  captains  and  their  men  arose,  and  made  up 
to  the  enemy,  and  cried  as  before,  "  The  sword  of 
the  Prince  Emmanuel,  and  the  shield  of  captain 
Credence." 

The  Diabolians  also  bestirred  themselves,  and 
made  resistance  as  well  as  they  could  ;  but  in  the 
last  engagement  the  Diabolians  lost  their  courage, 
and  tinny  of  the  Doubters  fell  down  dead  to  the 
ground.  Now  when  they  had  been  in  the  heat  of 
battle  about  an  hour  or  more,  captain  Credence 
lilted  up  his  eyes  and  saw,  and  behold  the  Prince 
Emmanuel  came,  and  he  came  with  colours  flying, 
trumpets  sounding,  and  the  feet  of  his  men  scarce 
touched  the  ground,  they  hasted  with 
that  celerity  towards  the  captains  that  When  tht 
were  engaged.  Then  did  captain  Cre-  enemy  is 
dence  wind  with  his  men  to  the  town-  betwixt 
ward  and  gave  to  Diabolus  the  field.  Christ  and 
So  Emmanuel  came  upon  him  on  the  faith,  then 
one  side,  and  the  enemies'  place  was  down  they 
betwixt  them  both  ;  then  again  they  fell  go  to  be* 
to  it  afresh  ;  and  now  it  was  but  a  little  sure. 
while  more,  when  Emmanuel  and  cap- 
tain Credence  met  still  trampling  upon  the  slain  at 
they  came. 

But  when  the  captains  saw  that  the  Prince  wag 
come,  and  that  he  fell  on  the  Diabolians  on  the 
other  side,  and  that  captain  Credence  and  his  High- 
ness had  got  them  up  betwixt  them,  they  shouted* 
(they  so  shouted  that  the  ground  rent,  again)  say- 
ing, "  The  sword  of  Emmanuel,  and  the  shield  of 
captain  Credence."  Now  when  Diabolus  saw  that 
he  and  his  forces  were  so  hard  beset  by  the  Prince 
and  his  princely  army,  what  does  he  and  the  lords 
of  the  pit  that  were  with  him,  but  make  their  es- 
cape, and  forsake  their  army,,  and  leave  them  to 
fall  by  the  hand  of  Emmanuel,  and 
of  his  uoble  captain  Credence;  so  they  The  victory 
fell  all  down  slain  before  them,  before  falls  to  Em- 
the  Prince  and  before  his  royal  army  ;  manuet  md 
22* 


2£8  THE  HOLY  fTAB. 

to  his  men,  there  was  not  left  so  much  as  one 
who  slay  Doubter  alive,  they  lay  spread  upon  the 
all.  ground  dead  men,  as  one  would  spread 

dung  upon  the  land. 
When  the    battle  was  over  all   things  came    into 
order    in  the  camp;  then  the  captains 
Mansoul       and  elders    of   Mnnsoul  came    together 
salutes  the  to  salute   Emmanuel,  while  without  did 
Prince  the    corporation ;  so  they   saluted    him, 

without,  he  and  welcomed  him.  and  that  with  a  thou- 
aJdresses  sand  welcomes,  for  that  he  ws  come  to 
himself  to  the  borders  of  Mansoul  again  :  so  he 
go  into  the  smiled  upon  them,  and  said,  "  Peace  be 
town.  to  you  "     Then    they    addressed  them- 

selves to  go  to  the  town,  they  went  then 
to  go  up  to  Mansoul,  they,  the  Prince,  with  all  the 
new  forces  that  now  he  had  brought  with  him  to 
the  war.  Also,  all  the  gates  of  the  town  were  set 
open  for  his  reception,  so  glad  were  they  of  his 
blessed  return.  And  this  was  the  manner  and  order 
of  this  going  of  his  into  Mansoul. 

First,  (as  I  said)  all  the  gates  of  the  town  were 
set  open,  yea,  the  gates  of  the  castle 
The  man-  also ;  the  elders  too  of  the  town  of  Man- 
ner of  his  soul  placed  themselves  at  the  gates  of 
going  in.  the  town,  to  salute  him  at  the  entrance 
thither ;  and  so  they  did,  fer  as  he  drew 
near,  and  approached  towards  the  gates,  they  said, 
"  Lift  up  your  heads,  O  ye  gates,  and  be  yet  lifted 
up,  ye  everlasting  doors,  and  the  King  of  glory 
shall  come  in."  And  they  answered  again,  "Who 
is  the  King  of  glory  ?"  And  they  made  a  return  to 
themselves,  "  The  Lord  strong  and  mighty,  the 
Lord  mighty  in  battle.  Lift  up  your  heads,  O  ye 
gates,  even  lift  them  up,  ye  everlasting  doors,  &c." 

Secondly,  it  w  as  ordered  also,  by  those  of  Man- 
soul, that  all  the  way  from  the  town  gates  to  those 
of  the  castle,  his  blessed  Majesty  should  be  enter- 
tained with  a  song,  by  them  that  had  the  best  skill  of 
xnusiG  in  the  town  of  Mansoul :  then  did  the  el- 
ders, and  the  rest  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  answer 
one  another  as  Emmanuel  entered  the  town,  till  he 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  259 

came  at  the  castle  gates,  with  songs  and  sound  of 
trumpet,  saying,  "  They  have  seen  thy  goings,  O 
God,  even  the  goings  of  my  God,  my  King  in  the 
sanctuary ."  So  the  singers  went  before  ;  the  play- 
ers, with  instruments,  followed  after,  and  among 
them  were  the  damsels  playing  on  timhrels. 

Thirdly,  Then  the  captains  (for  I  would  speak  a 
word  of  them)  they,  in  their  order,  waited  on  the 
Prince  as  he  entered  into  the  gates  of  Mansoul. 
Captain  Credence  went  before,  and  captain  Good- 
hope  with  him  ;  captain  Charity  came  behind,  with 
other  of  his  champions,  and  eaptain  Patience  fol- 
lowed after  all,  and  the  rest  of  the  captains,  some 
on  the  right  hand,  and  some  on  the  left,  accompani- 
ed Emmanuel  into  Mansoul.  Andall  the  while  the 
colours  were  displayed,  the  trumpets  sounded,  and 
continual  shoutings  were  among  the  soldiers.  "  The 
Prince  rode  into  the  town  in  his  armour,  which 
was  all  of  beaten  gold,  and  in  his  chariot,  the  pil- 
lars of  it  were  silver,  the  bottom  thereof  of  gold,  the 
covering  of  it  was  of  purple;  the  midst  thereof  be- 
ing paved  with  love  for  the  daughters  of  the  town 
of  Mansoul." 

Fourthly,  When  the  Prince  was  come    to  the  en- 
trance of  Mansoul,  he  found  all   the  streets  strewed 
with    lillies    and   flowers,    curiously    decked    with 
boughs   and    branches   from    the  green 
trees,  that  stood  round   about  the  town.     Good  and 
Every  door  also  was  filled  with  persons,    joyful 
who  had   adorned  every  one  their  fore-     thoughts. 
part,   against    their    house    with    some- 
thing of  variety,  and  singular  excellency  to  enter- 
tain him  withal,  as  he  passed   in  the   streets  :  they 
also  themselves,  as  Emmanuel  passed   by,  did  wel- 
come him  with  shouts  and  acclamations  of  joy,  say- 
ing,   a  Blessed  be   the  Prince  that  cometh   in   the 
name  of  his  father  Shaddai." 

Fifthly,  At  the  castle-gates  the  elders  of  Man- 
soul, to  wit,  my  lord  Mayor,  the  lord  Willbewill, 
the  subordinate  preacher,  Mr.  Knowledge,  and  Mr. 
Mind,  with  the  other  of  the  gentry  of  the  place, 
saluted  Emmanuel  again ,  they  bowed  before  him. 


36d  *HE  HOLY  WA«. 

and  kissed  the  dust  of  his  feet,  they  thanked,  thejr 
blessed  and  praised  his  Highness,  for  not  taking  ad- 
vantage against  them  for  their  sins,  but  rather  had 
pity  upon  them  in  their  misery,  and  returned  to 
them  with  mercies,  and  to  build  up  their  Mansoul 
for  ever.  Thus  he  was  had  up  straightway  to  trie 
eastle;  for  that  was  the  royal  place,  and  the  place 
•where  his  Honour  was  to  dwell;  the  which  was 
ready  prepared  for  his  Highness,  by  the  presence  »f 
the  Lord  Secretary,  and  the  work  of  captain  Cre- 
dence.    So  he  entered  in. 

Sixthly,  Then  the  people  and  the  commonalty  of 
the  town  of  Mansoul  carne  to  him  into  the  castle  to 
mourn  and  to  weep,  and  to  lament  for  their  wicked- 
ness, by  which  they  had  forced  him  out  of  the  town. 
So  they,  when  they  were  come,  hewed  themselves 
to  the  ground  seven  tiroes  ;  they  also  wept,  they 
wept  aloud,  and  asked  forgiveness  of  the  Prince, 
and  prayed,  that  he  would  again,  as  of  old,  confirm 
his  love  to  Mansoul. 

To  the  which  the  great  Prince  replied,  "  Weep 
n»t,  but  go  your  way,  eat  the  fd\,  and  drink  the 
sweet,  and  send  portions  to  them  for  whom  naught 
is  prepared,  for  the  joy  of  your  Lord  is  your  stieugth. 
I  am  returned  to  Mansoul  with  mercies,  and  my 
name  shall  be  set  up,  exalted  and  magnified  by  it." 
He  also  took  these  inhabitants  and  kissed  them^and 
laid  them  in  his  bosom. 

Moreover  he  gave  to  the  elders  of 
The  holy  Maiisoul,  and  to  each  town  officer,  a 
conceptions  chain  of  gold  and  a  signet.  He  also  sent 
of  Mansoul.  to  their  wives,  earrings  and  jewels  and 
Young  and  bracelets,  and  other  things.  He  also  be- 
tendcr  holy  stowed  upon  the  true  born  child  of  Man- 
thoughts,      soul  many  precious  things. 

When  Emmanuel  (he  Prince  had  done 
all  these  things  for  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul, 
then  he  said  unto  them  first,  "  Wash  your  gar- 
ments, then  put  on  your  ornaments,  and  then  come 
to  me  in  the  castle  of  Mansoul."  So  they  vent  t0 
the  fcniutain  that  was  opened  for  Judas 
EccU  9.  3.    and  Jerusalem  to  wash  in;  and  there 


1H15  HOLY  WAR.  2<ft 

they  washed,  and  there  they  made  their  Zee.  13.  I, 
garmenti  white,  and   they  came   again 
to  the  Prince  into  the  castle,  and   thus  they  stood 
before  him. 

And  now  there  was  music  and  dancing  through- 
out the  whole  town  of  Mansoul,  and 
that  because  their  Prince  had  again  Rev.  7« 
granted  to  them  his  presence,  and  light  14,  15* 
of  his  countenance;  the  bells  also  did 
ring,  and  the  sun  shine  comfortably  upon  them  fo? 
a  great  while  together. 

The  town  of  Mansoul  did  also  now  more  thor- 
oughly seek  the  destruction  and  ruin  of  all  remain- 
ing Diabolians  that  abode  in  the  walls  and  the  dens, 
that  they  had  in  the  town  of  Mansoul;  for  there 
was  of  them  that  had,  to  this  day,  escaped  with  life 
and  limb  from  the  hand  ©f  their  suppressors  in  the 
famous  (own  of  Mansoul. 

But  my  lord  Willbewill  was  a  greater  Willbervill 
terror  to  them  now  than  ever  he  had  a  greater 
been  before  ;  forasmuch  as  his  heart  was  terror  to 
yet  more  fully  bent  to  seek,  contrive,  and  the  Diabo- 
pursue  them  to  the  death ;  he  pursued  Hans  nonn 
them  night  and  day,  and  put  them  now  thanhehai 
to  sore  distress,  as  will  afterwards  appear,  been  in  for* 

After  things  were  thus  far  put  into  or-  mer  times* 
der  in  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul,  care 
was  taken,  and  order  given  by  the  bles-  Orders  giv- 
sed  Prince  Emmanuel  that  the  towns-  enouttobu- 
men  should,  without  further  delay,  ap-  ry  the  dead* 
point  some  to  go  forth  into  the  plain,  to 
bury  the  dead  that  were  there ;  the  dead  that  fell  by 
the  sword  of  Emmanuel,  and  by  the  shield  of  the 
captain  Credence,  lest  the  fames  and  ill  savours  that 
would  arise  from  them  might  infect  the  air,  and  so 
annoy  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul.  This  als  >  wai 
a  reason  of  this  order,  to  wit,  that  as  much  £S  in 
Mansoul  lay,  they  might  cut  orYthe  name  and  being 
and  remembrance  of  those  enemies,  from  the  thought 
of  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul,  and  its  inhabitants. 

So  order  was  given  out  to  the  lord  Mayor,  that 
wise  aad  trusty  friend  of  the  town  of  Mansoul?  tbaj 


262  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

persons  should  be  employed  about  this  necessary 
business;  and  Mr.  Godlyfear,  and  one  Mr.  Upright 
were  to  be  overseers  about  this  matter  ;  for  persons 
"were  put  under  them  to  work  in  the  fields,  and  to 
bury  the  slain  that  lay  dead  in  the  plains.  And 
these  were  their  places  of  employment,  some  were 
to  make  the  graves,  some  to  bury  the  dead,  and  some 
were  to  go  to  and  fro  in  the  plains,  and  also  round 
about  the  borders  of  Mansoul,  to  see  if  a  skull  or 
a  bone,  or  a  piece  of  a  bone,  ©f  a  Doubter  was  yet 
to  be  found  above  ground,  any  where  near  the  cor- 
poration;  and  if  any  were  found,  it  was  ordered, 
that  the  searchers  that  searched  should  setHip  a  mark 
thereby,  and  a  sign,  that  those  that  were  appointed 
to  bury  them  might  find  it,  and  bury  it  out  of  sight, 
that  the  name  and  remembrance  of  a  Diaboliaa 
Doubter  might  be   bloited  out  from  under  heaven. 

And  that  the  children,  and  they  that 
Not  a  skull  were  to  be  born  in  Mansoul,  might  not 
era  bone  or  know,  if  possible,  what  a  skull,  what  a 
apiece  of  a  bone,  or  a  piece  of  a  borie  of  a  Doubter 
bone  of  a  was.  So  the  buriers,  and  those  that  were 
Doubter  to  appointed  for  that  purpose,  did  as  they 
be  left  un-  were  commanded ;  they  buried  the 
buried.  Doubters,  and   all  the   skulls  and  bones, 

and  pieces  of  bones  of  Doubters  wher- 
ever they  found  them,  and  so  they  cleansed  the 
plains.  Now  also  Mr.  Godspeace  took  up  his  com- 
mission, and  acted  again  as  in  former  days. 

Thus  they  buried  in  the  plains  about  Mansoul, 
the  Election  Doubters,  the  Vocation  Doubters,  the 
Grace  Doubters,  the  Perseverance  Doubters,  the 
Resurrection  Doubters,  the  Salvation  Doubters,  and 
the  Giory  Doubters ;  whose  captains  were  captain 
Rage,  captain  Cruel,  captain  Damnation,  captain 
Insatiable,  captain  Brimstone,  captain  Torment, 
captain  Noease,  captain  Sepulchre,  and  captain 
Pasthope;  and  old  Incredulity  was  under  Diaboius 
their  general ;  there  were  also  the  seven  heads  of 
their  army,  and  they  were  the  lord  Beelzebub,  the 
lord  Lucifer,  the  lord  Legion,  the  lord  Apollyon,  the 
lord  Python,  the  lord  Cerberus,  and  the  lord  Belial. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  263 

But  the  princes  and  captains,  with   old  Incredulity 
their  general,  did  all   them    mike  their  escape  :  so 
their  men  fHl  down    blain  by  the  power  of  the  Prin- 
ce's forces,  and  by  the  hands  of  (he  men  of  the  town 
of  Mansou!.      They  also  were  huried   as  is  afore  re- 
lated, to  the  exceeding  great  joy  of  the  now  famous 
town  of  Mansou!.     They  that  l  uried  them,   buried 
also  with  them  their  arms,   which  were 
cruel  instruments  of  death;  their  weap-  Their  arms 
ons  were  arrows,  darts,  mauls,  firebrands  and  armour 
and  the  like;   they  buried  also  their  ar-  huried  with 
mour,  their  colours,   banners,  with   the  them. 
standard  of  Diabolus,  and  what   else  so- 
ever they  could  find  that  did  but  smeil  of  a  Diaboli- 
an  Doubter. 

Now  when  the  tyrant  was  arrived  at  Hell-ghte- 
hilf,  with  his  old  friend  Incredulity,  they  immedi- 
ately descended  the  den,  and  having  there,  with 
their  fellows,  for  a  while  condoled  their  misfortune, 
and  great  loss  that  they  sustained  against  the  town 
of  Mansou  I,  they  fell  at  length  into  a  passion,  and 
revenged  they  would  be  for  the  loss  that,  they  sus- 
tained before  the  town  of  Mansoul ; 
wherefore  they  presently  called  a  coun-  The  tyrant 
eil  to  contrive  yet  further  what  was  to  resolves  to 
be  done  against  the  famous  town  of  have  yet 
Mansoul,  for  their  yawning  paunches  about  with 
could  not  wait  to  see  the  result  of  their  Mansoul. 
lord  Lucifer's  and  their  lord  Apollyon's 
counsel  that  they  had  given  before,  for  their  raging 
gorge  thought  everyday  even  as  long  as  a  short  for- 
ever, until  they  were  filled  with  the  h«dy  and  soul, 
with  the  flesh  and  bones,  and  with  all  the  delicates 
of  Mansoul.  They  therefore  resolve  to  make  anoth- 
er attempt  upon  the  town  of  Mar.soul,  and  that  by 
an  army  mixed,  and  made  up  partly  of  Doubters  and 
partly  of  Bloodmen.  A  more  particular  account 
now  take  of  both. 

The   Doubters  are  such  as  have  their  name  from 
their  nature,   as   well  as   from   the   lord 
and  kingdom  where  they  are  born  ;  their  An  army  of 
nature  is  to  put  a  question  upon  every  Doubters 


264  ^HE  HOLY  WAR. 

mnd  Blood-  one  of  the  truths  of  Emmanuel,  and  their 
men.  country   is  called  The  Land  of  Doubt- 

ing;, and  that  land  lieth  oif,  and  farthest 
remote  to  the  north,  between  the  land  of  Darkness, 
and  that  called  The  Valley  of  the  Shad- 
Ofihe  conn-  ow  of  Death.  For  though  the  land  of 
try  of  the  Darkness,  and  that  called  the  Land  of 
Doubters  the  Shadow  of  Death,  be  sometimes  cal- 
and  Blood-  led  as  if  they  were  one  and  the  selfsame 
men,  where  place,  yet  indeed  fhey  are  two  lying  but 
they  lie.  a  little  way  asunder,  and  the  laud  of 
Doubting  points  in,  and  lying  between 
them.  This  is  the  land  of  Doubting,  and  those 
that  came  with  Diaholns  to  ruin  the  town  of  Man- 
soul,  are  the  natives  of  that  country. 

The  Bloodmen  are  a  people  that  have  their  name 
derived  from  the  malignity  of  their  nature,  and  from 
the  fury  that  is  in  them  to  execute  it  upon  the  town 
©f  Mansoul ;  their  land  lieth  under  the  dog  star,  and 
by  that  they  are  governed  as  to  their  intellectuals. 
The  name  of  their  country  is  the  province  of  Loath- 
good,  the  remote  parts  of  it  are  far  distant  from  the 
land  of  Doubting,  yet  they  do  both  butt  and  bound 
upon  the  hill  called  Hell-gate-hill.  These  people 
are  always  in  league  with  the  Doubters,  for  they 
jointly  do  make  question  of  the  faith  and  fidelity  of 
the  men  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  so  are  both 
alike  qualified  for  the  service  of  their  prince. 

Now  of  these  two  countries  did  Diab- 
The  num-  olus,  by  the  beating  of  his  drum,  raise 
ber  of  his  another  army  against  the  town  of  Man- 
new  army,  soul,  of  five  and  twenty  thousand  strong. 
There  were  ten  thousand  Doubters,  and 
fifteen  thousand  Bloodmen,  and  they  were  put  under 
several  captains  of  the  war,  and  old  Incredulity  was 
again  made  general  of  the  army. 

As  for  the  Doubters,  their  captains  were  five  of 
the  seven  that  were  heads  of  the  last  Diabolian  ar- 
my, and  these  are  their  names,  captain  Beelzebub, 
eaptain  Lucifer,  captain  Apollyon,  captain  Legion, 
and  captain  Cerberus,  and  the  captains  that  they 
had  before  were  some  of  them  made  lieutenants,,  and 
some  ensigns  of  the  army. 


?HE  HOLY  WAR.  265 

Sut  Diabolus  did  not  count  that  in  this  expedition 
•f  his,  these    Doubters    would  prove    his    principal 
men,  for  their  manhood  had  been  tried  before  ;  also 
the    Mansoliaus   had  put    them  to  the  worst,  only 
he  did    bring    them   to  multiply  a  num- 
ber, and  to  help  i  need  was  at  a  pinch,  His     chief 
but  his  trust   he  put  in  hi*   Bloodmen,  strength 
for  that   they    were  all  rugged  villains,  lies    in  tin 
and  he  knew  that  they  had  done  feats  Blood/tun. 
heretofore. 

As  for  the  Bloodmen  they  also  were  under  ©on> 
»and,  and  the  names  of  their  captains  were  captain 
Cain,  captain  Nimrod,  captain  Ishmaei,  captain 
Esau,  captain  Saul,  captain  Absalom,  captain  Judas 
and  captain  Pope. 

1  Captain  Cain  was  over  two  bands,  Gen.  4.  8. 
to  wit,  the  zealous  and  the  angry  Blood- 
men  ;  his    standard   bearer    bare    the    red    colours, 
and  his  scutcheon  wa3  the  murdering  club. 

2.  Captain  Nimrod  was  captain  over  two  bands, 
to  wit,  the  tyrannical  and  incroaching 
Bloodmen;  his  standard  bearer  bare  the  Gen.  10. 
red  colours,  and  his  scutcheon  was  the  8.  9. 
great  blood  hound. 

3.  Captain  Ishmae!  was  captain  over  two  bands; 
to  w't,  over  the  mocking  and  scorning 
Bloodmen;    his   standard    bearer   bare  Gen.  21. 
the  red  colours,  and  his  scutcheon  was  9.  10. 
one  mocking  at  Abraham's  Isaac. 

4.  Captain  Esau  was  captain  over  two  bands,  t* 
wit,  the  Bloodmen  that  grudged  that  another  should 
have  the  blessing;  also  over  the  Bloodmen  that  arr 
for  executing  their  private  revenge  up- 

.on  others;  his  standard  bearer  bare  the  Gen.  27. 
red  colours,  and    his  scutcheon  was  one  42,  43,  44, 
privately  lurking  to  murder  Jacob.  45. 

5.  Captain  Saul  was  captain  o^ver  two 

bands,    to    wit,  the   groundless  jealous  1  Sam.  13. 
and  the  devilish  furious  Bloodmen  ;  his  10. 
standard    bearer  bare   the  red  colours, 
and  his  scutcheon  was  three    bloody  dark  c*st  at 
harmless  David. 

23 


266  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

f3.  Captain  Absalom  was  captain  over  the  two 
bands,  to  wit,  over  the  Bloodmen  that 
9h.  19.  10,  will  kill  a  father  or  a  fsiend  for  the  glory 
Ch.  20.  23.  of  this  world  ;  also  over  those  Blood- 
2.  Stm.  15-  men  that  will  bold  one  fair  in  hand  with 
16,  17,  words,  till  they  shall  have  pierced  him 

ehapters.       with  their  swords  ;  his  standard  bearer 
did   bear   the  red  colours,  and  his  scut- 
cheon was  the  son  pursuing  the  father's  blood. 

7.  Captain  Jiu'as  was  over  the  two  bands,  to  wit, 
the  Bloodmen  that  will  sell  a  man's  life 
Mat.  26.       for  money,   and  those  also  that  will  be- 
14,  15,  16.  tray  their  friends  with  a  kiss;  his  stand- 
ard bearer  bare  the  red  colours,  and  hig 
scutcheon  was  thirty  pieces  of  silver  and  the  halter. 
8.  Captain   Pope   was  captain  over  one 
Rev.  13.       band,  for  all  these   spirits   are  joined  in 
7,8.  one   under   him;    his   standard    bearer 

Dan.  11.      bare  the  red  colours,  and  his  scutcheon 
>3.  was  the  stake,  the  flame,  and  the  good 

man  in  it. 
Now  the  reason  why  Diabolus  did  so  soon  rally 
another  force  after  he  had  been  beaten 
The  condi-  out  cf  the  field,  were  for  that  he  put 
tions  of  the  mighty  confidence  in  this  array'of  Blood- 
Bloodmcn^  men,  for  he  put  a  great  deal  more  trust 
their  stout-  in  them  than  he  did  before  in  his  army 
niss  and  of  Doubters,  though  they  had  also  often 
valour.  done    great    service    for    him,    in    the 

strengthening  of  him  in  his  kingdom. 
But  these  Bloodmen  he  had  proved  them  often,  and 
their  sword  did  seldom  return  empty.  Besides,  he 
knew  that  these,  like  mastiffs,  would  fasten  upon 
any;  upon  father,  mother,  brother,  sister,  prince  or 
governor,  yea,  upon  the  Prince  of  princes.  And 
that  which  encouraged  him  the  more  was,  for  that 
they  did  once  force  Emmanuel  out  of  the  kingdom 
of  Universe;  and  why,  thought  he,  may  they  not 
also  drive  him  from  tfie  town  of  Mantoul. 

So  this  army  of  five  and  twenty  thousand  strong 

was  by    their   general,    the   great  lord 

They    hit     Incredulity,  led  up  against  the  town  of 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  267 

Mansoul.     Now  Mr.  Prywelt  the  scout-  downhefore 

master  general,  did   himself  go  out  to  Mansoul. 

spy,  and   he^tljd  bring  Mansoul   tidings 

of  their  coming  :  Wiferefore  they  shut  up  their  gates, 

and  put  themselves  in  a  posture  of  defence  against 

these   new    Diaboiians    that  came   up  against  the 

town. 

So   Diabolus  brought   up   his   army, 
and  beleaguered   the  town  of  Mansoul  ;  How     they 
the  Doubters   were  placed  about   Fee!-  dispose     of 
gate,  and  the  Bloodmen  set  down  before  themselves. 
Eyegate  and  Eargate. 

Now  when  this   army  had  thus  encamped  them- 
selves, Incredulity  did,  in   the  name  of 
Diabolus,  his   own  name,   and   in   the  TTiey  sum- 
name  of  the  Bloodmen  and  the  rest  that  mon       the 
were   with  him,  send  a  summons  as  hot  town     with 
as    red  hot  iron  to  Mansoul,  to  yield  to  a  threaten- 
their  demands,  threatening,  that  if  they  ing. 
atill  stood  out  against  them,  they  would 
presently   burn  down  Mansoul  wilh  fire.     For  you 
must  know,  that  as  for  the  Bloodmen  they  were  not 
so  much  that  Mansoul  should  be  surrendered,  as  that 
Mansoul  should  be  destroyed,  and  cut  off  out  of  the 
land  of  the  living.     True,  they  send  to  them  to  sur- 
render, but  should  they  so  do,  that  would  not  stench 
or  quench  the  thirsts  of  these  men  ;  they  must  have 
blood,  the  blood  of  Mansoul,  else  they  die,  and  it  is 
from   hence  that  they  have  their  name ; 
wherefore  these  Bloodmen  he  reserved,  Psa.  29. 10 
while  now    that  they  might,  while  all  Isa.  59.  7. 
his   engines  proved   ineffectual,  as  his  Jer.  22,17. 
last  and  sure  card,  to  be  played  against 
the  town  of  Mansoul. 

Now  when  the  townsmen  had  received  this  red 
hot  summons,  it  began  in  them  at  present  some 
changing  and  interchanging  thoughts;  but  they 
jointly  agreed,  in  less  than  half  an  hour, 
to  carry  the  summons  to  the  Prince,  Psa.  59.  2. 
the  which  they  did,  when  they  had  writ 
at  the  bottom  of  it,  Lord3  save  Mansoul  from  blcody 
men. 


Itife  THE  KOLY  WAB. 

So  he  took  it  and  looked  upon  it,  and  considereS 
it,  and  took  notice  also  of  that  short  petition  that 
the  men  of  Mansoul  had  written  at  the  bottom  of 
\  ,  and  called  to  him  the  noble  captain  Credence, 
aad  bid  him  go  and  take  captain  Patience  with  him, 

and  go  and  take  care  of  that  side  of 
Heb.  6.  12.  Mansoul  that  wa9  beleagured  by  the 
v.r.15.         Bloodmen.     So- they   went   and  did  at 

they  were  commanded  ;  captain  Cre- 
dence went  and  took  captain  Patience,  and  both  se- 
cured that  side  of  Mansoul  that  was  besieged  by  tht 
Eloodmen. 

Then  he  commanded  that  captain  Goodhope  an* 
captain  Charity,  and  my  lord  Willbewill,  should 
lake  charge  of  the  other  side  of  the  town ;  and  ^ 
said  the  Prince,  will  set  my  standard  upon  the  bat- 
tlements of  your  castle,  and  do  you  three  watch 
against  the  Doubters.  This  done,  he  again  com- 
manded that  the  brave  captain,  the  captain  Experi- 
ence, should  draw  up  his  men  in  the  market  place, 
and  that  there  he  should  exercise  them  day  by  day 
before  the  people  of  the  town  of  Mansoul.  Now 
this  siege  was  long,  and  many  a  fierce  attempt  did 
the  enemy,  especially  those  that  are  called  the 
Bioodmes,  make  upon  the  town  of  Mansoul ;  and 
many  a  shrewsd  brush  did  many  of  the  townsmen 

meet  with  from  them,  especially  cap- 
Captain  tain  Self-denial,  who,  I  should  have  told 
Self-denial  you  before,  was  commanded  to  take 
(lie  last  of  care  ©f  Eargate  and  Eyegate  now  against 
these  that  the  Bloodmen.  This  captain  Self-den*- 
were  pit  al  was  a  young  man  but  stout,  and  a 
in  office  in  townsman  in  Mansoul,  as  captain  Expe- 
the  iomti  of  rience  also  was.  And  Emmanuel,  at 
Mansoul.  his  second  return  to  Mansoul,  made 
His  valour,  him   a  captain  over  a  thousand  of  the 

Mansoulians,  for  the  good  of  the  corpo* 
ration.  This  captain  therefore  being  a  hardy  man, 
and  a  man  of  great  courage,  and  willing  to  venture 
himself  for  the  good  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  would 
now  and  then  sally  out  upon  the  Bloodmen,  and 
give  them  many  notable  alarms,  and  entered  sever* 


THE  HOLT  WAlt.  20§ 

al  brisk  skirmishes  with  them,  and  also  did  some 
execution  upon  them  through  which  he  carried  sev- 
eral of  their  marks  in  his  face  and  on  his  body. 

So  after  some  time  spent  for  the  trial 
of  the  faith  and   hope  and  love  of  the  Hissignsof 
town  of  Mansoul ;  the  Prince  Emman-  manhood. 
ttel,  upon   a  day  calls  his  captains  and  Emmanuel 
men  of  war  together,  and  divides  them  prepares  to 
into    com^rsnies;    this   done,    he   com-  give        the 
mands  them  at   a   time   appointed,  and  enemy  hat- 
that  in  the  morning  very  early,  to  sally  tie. 
out  upon    the   enemy,   saying,    let   half  How     he 
of  you  fall  upon  the  Doubters,  and  half  ordereth 
of  you  fall  upon  the  Blooilmen.     Those  his  men. 
of  you  that  go  out  against  the  Doubters, 
kill  and  slay  and  cause  to  perish   so  many  of  them, 
as  by  any  means  you  can  lay  hands  on ;  but  for  you 
that  go  out  against  the  Bloodmen,  slay  them  not^ 
but  take  them  alive. 

So  at  the   time   appointed,   betimes  in  the  morn- 
ing, the  captains  went  out  as  they  were 
commanded  against   the  enemies;  cap-       The  cap- 
tain   Goodhope,   captain    Charity,    and       tains  ge 
those  that   were  joined   with   them,  as       out. 
captain    Innocent   and   captain  Experi- 
ence, went  out  against   the  Doubters;  and  captain 
Credence  and  captain  Patience,   with   captain  Self- 
denial,  and  the  rest  that  were  to  join  with  him  went 
out  against  the  Btoodmen. 

Now   these  that   went  out  against  the  Doubters 
drew  up  in  a  body  before  the  plain,  and 
marched   on    to   bid   them    battle;  but  The  Doubt* 
the    Doubters    remembering   their    last  crs  put    U 
success  made    a    retreat,  not  daring  to  flight. 
stand  the  shock,  but  fled  from  the  Prin- 
ce's men  ;  wherefore  they  pursued  them,  and  in  thei'F 
pursuit  slew    many,  but   could  not  catch  them  ail. 
Now  those  that  escaped,  went  some  of  them  home, 
and  the  rest  by   fives,  nines,  and  seventeens,  like 
wanderers,  went  straggling  up  an<d  down  the  coun- 
try, \,here  they,  upon  the  barbarous  people,  shewe$ 
and  exercised  many  of  their  Diabolian  actions;  ncr* 
23  * 


270  ME  HOLY  WAIL 

The  Unbe-  did  these  people  rise  up  in  arms  against 
lievers  nev-  them,  hut  suffered  themselves  to  be  en- 
er  fight  the  slaved  by  them.  They  would  also,  af- 
Doubters,     ter  this,  shew  themselves  in  companies 

before  the   town  of  Wan  sou  I,  but  never 

to  abide  it;  for  if  captain  Credence, 
captain  Goodhope,  or  captain  Experience  did  but 
•hew  themselves,  they  fled. 

Those   that  went  out  against  the  Bloodmen  did 
as    they  were   commanded,  they    forebore   to  slay 

any,  but  sought  to  compass  them  about. 
The  Blood-  But  the  Bloodmen,  when  they  saw  that 
men  are  no  Emmanuel  was  in  the  field,  conclu- 
taken  and  ded  aiso,  that  no  Emmanuel  was  in 
hew.  Mansoul ;  wherefore  they,  looking  upoa 

what  Uie  captains  did  to  be,  as  they  cal- 
led it,  a  fruit  of  the  extravagancy  of  their  wild  and 
foolish  fancies,  rather  despised  them  than  feared 
them,  but  the  captains  minding  their  business,  at  last 
did  compass  them  round  ;  they  also  that  had  routed 
the  Doubters,  came  in  amain  to  their  aid,  so  in  fine, 
after  some  little  struggling,  for  the  Bloodmen  also 
would  have  run  for  it,  only  now  it  was  too  late,  for 
though  they  were  mischievous  and  cruel,  where 
they  can  overcame,  yet  all  Bloodmen  are  chicken- 
hearted  men,  when  they  once  come  to  see  them- 
selves matched  and  equalled,  so  the  captains  took 
them  and  brought  them  to  the  Prince. 

Now  when  they  were  taken,  had  be- 
They  are  fore  the  Prince,  and  examined,  he  found 
brought  to  them  to  be  of  three  several  counties, 
lite  Prince  though  they  all  came  out  of  one  land. 
and  found  1.  One  sort  of  them  came  out  of 
to  be  of  Blindmanshire,  and  they  were  such  as 
three  sorts,  did  ignorantly  what  they  did. 

1.  Tim.  1.  2.  Another  sort  of  them  came  out  of 
13,  14,  1*.  Blindzealshire,  and  they  did  supersti- 
Mat.  5.  44.  tiously  what  they  did. 

Luke  6.  22.  3.  The  third  sort  of  them  came  out 
John  16.  1,  of  the  town  of  Malice,  in  the  county  of 

2.  Envy,  and  they  did  what  they  did  out 
4cts9.5f&  vf  spite  and  implacablene&s. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  2fl 

For   the  first  of  the„se,  to  wit,  they  Rev.  9.  20, 
that  came  out  of   Blindmr  nshire,   when  21. 
they  s-iw  where  they  were,  and  against  John  8.  40, 
whom   they    had   fought,  they  t  rem  Med  41,  &c. 
and  cried  as  I  hey  stood  hefore  him ;  and 
as   many  of  these  as  asked  him  mercy,  he  touched 
his  lips  with  his  golden  sceptre. 

They  that  came  out  of  Blindzealshire,  they  did 
not  as  their  fellows  did,  for  they  pleaded  that  they 
had  a  right  to  do  what  they  did,  because  Mansoul 
was  a  town,  whose  laws  and  customs  were  diverse 
from  all  that  dwelt  thereabouts;  very  few  of  these 
could  he  brought  to  see  their  evil,  but  those  that 
did,  and  asked  mercy,  they  also  obtained  favour. 

Now   they  that  came  out  of  the  town  of  Malice, 
that  is  in  the  county  of  Envy,  they  nei- 
ther wept,   nor   disputed,  nor  repented,  The  Blood* 
but  stood  gnawing  of  their  tongues  be-  men        are 
fore  him  for  anguish   and  madness,   be-  bound  over 
cause  they  could  not  have  their  will  up-  to     answer 
en  Mansoul.     Now   those  last  with  all  for       what 
those  of  the  other  two  sorts,  that  did  they      have 
not  unfeignediy   ask    pardon    for   their  done  at  the 
faults;  those  he    made  to  enter  int©  suf-  assizes. 
ficient  bond,  to  answer  for  what  they  The  day  of 
had  done  against   Mansoul   and  against  judgment. 
her  King,  at   the  great  and  general  assi- 
zes to  be  holrien   for  our  Lord  the  King,  where  he 
himself  should  appoint  for  the  country  and  kingdom 
of  Universe. 

So  they  became  bound  each  man  for  himself, 
to  come  in  when  called  upon,  to  answer  before 
our  Lord  the  King  for  what  they  had  done  as  be- 
fore. 

And  thus  much  concerning  this  second  army,  that 
was  sent  by  Diabolus  to  overthrow  Mansoul. 

But  there  were  three  of  those  that  came  from 
the  land  of  Doubting,  who  after  they  had  wandered 
and  ranged  the  country  a  while,  and 
perceived  that  they  had  escaped,  were  Three  or 
so  hardy  as  to  thrust  themselves,  know-  four  Doub- 
ifij  that  yet  there  were  in  the    town  ters  go  into 


272  9fHE  HOLY  WAR, 

Mansoul,  Diabolians,  I  say  they  were  se  hardy  a* 
are  enter-  to  thrust  themselves  into  Mansoul 
tained,  and  among  them;  three,  did  I  say,  I  think 
by  whom,     there  were   four.     Now  to  whose  house 

should  these  Diabolian  Doubters  go,  hut 
to  the  house  of  an  old  Diabolian  in  Mansoul,  whose 
name  was  Evilquestioning,  a  very  great  enemy  he 
was  to  Mansoul,  and  a  great  doer  among  the  Dia- 
bolians there.  Well,  to  this  Evilquestioning's 
house,  as  we  said,  did  these  Diabolians  come,  (you 
may  be  sure  that  they  had  directions  how  to  find 
the  way  thither)  so  he  made  them  welcome,  pitied 
their  misfortune,  and  succoured  them  vrsth  the 
best  that  he  had  in  his  house.  Now  after  a  little 
acquaintance,  and  it  was  not  long  before  they  bad 
that,  this  old   Evilquestioning  asked  the   Doubters 

if  they  were  all  of  a  town,  (he  knew 
What  sort  that  they  were  all  of  one  kingdom) 
cfDczibtcrs  and  they  answered  No,  nor  not  of  one 
they    arc.     shire  neither;    for  !,  said  one,  am   an 

Election  Doubter;  I,  said  another,  am  a 
Vocation  Doubter;  then  said  the  third,  I  am  a  Sal- 
vation Doubter;  and  the  fourth  said,  he  was  a 
Grace  Doubter.  Well,  quoth  the  old  gentleman, 
be  of  what  shire  you  will,  I  am  persuaded  that  you 
are  down  bojs,  you  have  the  very  length  of  my 
foot,  are  one  with   my  heart,  and  shall   be  welcome 

to  me.  So  they  thanked  him  and  were 
Talk  he-  glad  that  they  had  found  themselves  an 
twixt  the  harbour  in  Mansoul.  Then  said  Evil- 
J)cuhlcrs  questioning  to  them,  How  many  of 
and  old  your  company  might  4here  be  that 
Evitqiies-  came  with  you  to  the  siege  of  Mansoul  ? 
ticning.         And    they    answered,    there  were    but 

ten  thousand  Doubters  in  all  for  the 
rest  of  the  army  consisted  of  fifteen  thousand  Blood- 
men  ;  these  Bloodmen,  quoth  they,  border  upon 
our  country,  but,  poor  men,  as  we  hear,  they  were 
every  one  taken  by  Emmanuel's  forces.  Ten 
thousand !  quoth  the  old  gentleman,  I'll  promise 
you  that's  a  round  company ;  but  how  came  it  to 
pass,  since  you  were  so  mighty  a  number,  that  yea 


THE  HOLY  WAK.  279 

feinted,  and  durst  not  fight  your  foe3  ?  Our  general, 
said  they,  was  the  first  man  that  did  run  for  it. 
Pray,  quoth  their  landlord,  who  was  that  cowardly 
general  ?  He  was  once  the  lord  mayor  of  Mansoul, 
said  they  :  But  pray  call  him  not  a  cowardly  general, 
for  whether  any  from  the  east  to  the  west  has  done 
more  service  for  our  prince  Biabolus,  than  has  my 
lord  Incredulity,  will  be  a  hard  question  for  you 
to  answer ;  but  had  they  catehed  him,  thej^  would 
for  certain  have  hanged  him,  and  we  promise  you, 
hanging  is  but  a  bad  business.  Then  said  the  old 
gentlemen,  I  would  that  all  the  ten  thousand  Doubt- 
ers were  now  well  armed  in  Mansouf,  afid  myself 
on  the  head  of  them,  I  would  see  what  1  could  do. 
Ay,  said  they,  that  would  be  well  if  we  could  see 
that;  but  wishes,  alas  !  what  are  they  ?  And  these 
words  were  spoken  aloud.  Well,  said  old  Evil- 
questioning,  take  heed  that  you  talk  not  too  loud, 
you  must  be  quiet  anil  close,  and  must  take  care  of 
yourselves  while  you  are  here,  or  I'll  assure  you, 
you  will  be  snapt. 

Why?  quoth  the  Doubters. 

Why,  quoth  the  old  gentleman,  because  both  the 
Prince  and  Lord  Secretary,  and  their  captains  and 
•oldiers  are  all  at  present  in  town :  yea,  the  town 
is  as  full  of  them  as  ever  it  can  hold.  And  besides, 
there  is  one  whose  name  is  Willbewill,  a  most  cruel 
enemy  of  ours,  and  him  the  Prince  has  made  keener 
of  the  gates,  and  has  commanded  him  that,  with  all 
the  diligence  he  can,  he  should  look  for,  search  out, 
and  destroy  all,  and  ail  manner  of  Diabolians. 

And   if  he  lighteth  upon  you,  down  Th 
you  go,  though  your  heads  were  made         vf  arf 
of  gold.  overheard. 

And  now  to  see  how  it  happened,  one  of  the  lord 
Willbewiil's  faithful  soldiers,  whose  name  was  Mr. 
Biligence,  stood  all  this  while  listening  under  old 
Evilqueslioning's  eaves,  aud  heard  all  the  talk 
which  had  been  betwixt  him  and  the  Doubters  that 
he  entertained  under  his  roof. 

The  soldier  was  a  man  that  my  lord  had  much 
♦enfitfence   in,  and  that  be  loved  dearly,  and  that 


274  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

both  because  he  was  a  man  of  courage,  and  also  a 
man  that  was  unwearied  in  seeking  after  Diaboliaug 
to  apprehend  them. 

Now  this  man,  as  1  told  you,   heard  all  the  talk 

that  was  between  old  Evilquestioning 
They  are  and  these  Diaholians  ;  wherefore  what 
discovered,    does    he  hut  goes  to  his  lord,   and  teils 

him  what  he  had  heard.  And  shyest 
thou  so  my  trusty,  quoth  my  lord  ?  Ay,  quoth 
Diligence,  that  I  do,  and  if  your  lordship  shall  be 
pleased  to  go  with  me,  you  shall  find  it  as  I  have 
said.  And  are  tiiey  there,  quoth  my  lord  ?  I  know 
Evilquestioning  well,  for  he  and  I  were  great  ia 
the  time  of  our  apostacy ;  but  I  knovr  not  now 
where  he  dwells.  But  I  do,  said  his  man,  and  if 
your  lordship  will  go,  I  will  lead  you  the  way  to  his 
den.  Go  !  quoth  my  lord,  that  I  will.  Come,  my 
Diligence,  let's  go  find  them  out.  So  my  lord  and 
his  man  went  together  the  direct  way  to  hl»  house. 
Now  his  man  went  before  to  sh^w  him  his  way,  and 
they  went  till  they  came  even  under  old  Mr.  Evil- 
questioning's  wall:  Then  said  Diligence,  Hark! 
my  lord  do  yoa  know  the  old  gentleman's  tongue 
when  you  hear  it  ?  Yes,  said  my  lord,  i  know  it 
well,  but  I  have  not  seen  him  many  a  day.  This  I 
know,  he  is  cunning,  I  wish  he  doth  not  give  us 
the  slip.  Let  me  alone  for  that,  said  his  servant 
Diligence.  But  how  shall  we  find  the  door,  quoth 
my  lord  ?  Let  me  alone  for  that  too,  said  his  man. 
So  he  had  my  lord  Willbewill  about,  and  shewed 
him  the  way  to  the  door.     Then  my  lord,  without 

more  ado,  broke  open  the  door,  rushed 
They  are  into  the  house,  ami  caught  them  all  five 
apprehend-  together,  even  as  Diligence  his  man 
cdandcom-  had  told  him.  So  my  lord  apprehended 
mittcd  to  them,  and  led  them  away,  and  committed 
prison.  them    into   the    hands  of  Mr.  Trueman 

The  lord  the  jailor,  and  commanded,  that  he  did 
Mayor  is  put  them  in  ward.  This  done,  my  lord 
glad  at  it.     Mayor   was   acquainted  in  the  morning 

what  my  io*d  Willbewill  had  done  over 
night  and  his   iordsliip   rejoiced  much  at  the  new»> 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  275 

jiiot  only  because  there  were  Doubters  apprehend- 
ed, but  because  that  old  Evilquestioniug  was  taken  ; 
for  he  had  been  a  very  great  trouble  to  Mansoul, 
and  much  affliction  to  my  lord  Mayor  himself.  He 
had  also  been  sought  for  often  but  no  hand  could  ev- 
er be  laid  upon  him  till  now. 

Well,   the  next   thing   was  to  make   preparation 
to  try  these  rh  ?,  that,  by  my  lord,  had  been  a.  j  re- 
bended,  and   that   were  in  the  hands  of  Mr.  True- 
man  the  jailor.     So  the   cAay  was  set,  and  the  court; 
called  and  came   together,  and  the  pris- 
oners   brought   to    the    bar.      My    lord  They     are 
WillbeSvill    had    power  to   have    slain  brought  to 
them  when  at  first    he  took    them,    and  trial. 
that  without  any  more  ado,  but  he  thought    - 
it  at  this  time  more  to  the  honour  of  the  Prince,  the 
comfort  of  Mansoul,  and  the  discouragement  of  the 
enemy,  to  bring  them  forth  to  public  judgment. 

But  I  say,  Mr.  Truemao  brought  them  in  chains 
to  the  bar,  to  the  town  hail,  fur  that  was  the  place  of 
judgment.  So  to  be  short,  the  jury  was  i»pannelleu, 
the  witnesses  sworn,  and  the  prisoners  tried  for 
their  lives  ;  the  jury  w  :s  the  same  that  tried  Mr. 
Notruth,  Pitiless,  Haughty,  and  the  rest  of  their 
companions. 

And  first,  old  Questioning  himself  was  set  to  the 
bar;  for  he  was  the  receiver,  the  entertainer,  and 
comforter  of  these  Doubters,  that  by  nation  was 
outlandish  men :  then  he  was  bid  to  hearken  lo  his 
charge,  aud  was  told  that  he  had  liberty  to  ohject, 
if  he  had  ought  to  say  for  himself.  So  this  in* 
dictraent  was  read,  the  manner  and  form  here  fol- 
lows. 

"  Mr.  Questioning,  thou  art  here  indicted  by  the 
name    of  Eviiqueslioning,   an   intruder 
upon  the  town  of  Mansoul,  for  that  thou  His  indict- 
art  a  Diabolian    by    nature,   and  also  a  ment. 
hater  of  the  Prince  Eac^^nuel,  and  one 
that  had  studied   the  ruin  of  the  town  of  Mansoul. 
Thou  art  also  here  indicied  for  countenancing  the 
King's  enemies,  after  wholesome    !;nvs  m*de  to  the 
contrary.     Forsl.  Thou   hast  questioned  the  truth 


270  *Hfc  Hf>LY  WAR. 

ef  her  doctrine  and  state.  2.  In  wishing  that  tea 
thousand  Doubters  were  in  her.  3.  In  receiving, 
in  entertaining,  and  encouraging  of  her  enemies, 
that  came  from  their  army  unto  thee.  What  sayest 
thou  to  this  indictment,  art  thou  guilty  or  not  guil- 
ty r 

"  My  lord,  (quoth  he)  I  know  not 
His  plea.  the  meaning;  of  this  indictment,  for  as 
much  as  I  am  not  the  man  concerned  in 
it,  the  man  that  standelh  by  this  charge,  accused 
before  this  bench,  is  called  by  the  name  of  Evil- 
question  i  rig,  which  name  I  deny  to  be  mine,  mine 
being  Houestenquiring.  The  one  indeed  sounds 
Tery  like  the  other,  but  I  trow,  your  lordships  know 
that  between  tfcose  two  there  is  a  wide  difference; 
for  I  hope  that  a  man,  even  in  the  worst  of  times, 
and  that  too  amongst  the  worst  of  men,  may  make 
an  honest  enquiry  after  things,  without  running  the 

danger  of  de;ith." 
Lord  Will-  Then  spake  my  lord  Willbewill,  for 
bewiWstes-  he  was  on^ofthe  witnesses:  "  My  Lord 
timony.  and  yon  the  honourable  bench,  and  ma- 
gistrates of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  you 
all  have  heard  with  your  ears,  that  the  prisoner  at 
the  bar  has  denied  his  name,  and  so  thinks  to  shift 
from  the  charge  of  his  indictment  But  I  know 
him  to  be  the  man  concerned,  and  that  his  proper 
name  is  Evilquestioning.  I  have  known  him,  my 
lord,  above  this  thirty  years,  for  he  and  I  (a  shame 
it  is  for  me  to  speak  it)  were  great  acquaintance, 
when  Diabolus,  that  tyrant,  had  the  government  of 
Mansoul ;  and  I  testify  that  he  is  a  Diabolian  by 
nature,  an  enemy  to  our  Prince,  and  an  hater  of  the 
blessed  town  of  Mansoul.  He  has,  in  times  of  re- 
bellion, been  and  lain  at  my  house,  my  lord,  and  so 
little  as. twenty  nights  together,  and  we  did  use  to 
talk  then,  for  the  substance  of  talk,  as  he  and  his 
'Doubters  have  talked  of  late:  True,  I  have  not 
seen  him  many  a  day,  I  suppose  that  the  coming  of 
Emmanuel  to  Mansoul,  has  made  him  to  change  his 
lodgings,  as  this  indictment  has  driven  him  to  change 
iis  name,  but  this  is  the  man,  my  lord. 


TOE  HOTiY  WAR.  2Tf 

¥hen  said  the  courl    uajp  him,   Hast  The  court 
thou  any  more  to  s ay  ? 

Yes,'  quoth  the  old  gentleman,  that  I      His  plea. 
have,  for  all  thai  has  as  yet  been  said  a- 
galnst  me,   is  but  ?.,y  the    mouth  of  one  witness,  and 
it  is  not  lawful  for  the  famous  town  of  Mansoul,  at 
the  mouth  of  one  witness  to  put  any  man  to  death. 

Then  stood  forth  Mr.  Diligence  and 
•aid,  "My  lord,  as  I  was  upon  my  watch  Mr.  Dili- 
■uch  a  night,  at  the  head  of  Badsfreel,  genie's  ies- 
in  this  town,  I  chanced  to  hear  a  rtfut-  thnony. 
tering  within  this  gentleinau's  house; 
then,  thought  I,  what's  to  do  here  ?  so  1  went  up 
close,  but  very  softly,  to  the  side  of  the  house  to 
listen,  thinking,  as  indeed  it  fell  out.  that  there  I 
might  light  upon  some  Diabolian  conventicle.  So^ 
as  i  said,  I  drew  nearer  and  nearer,  an  1  when  I 
was  got  up  close  to  the  wall,  it  was  but  a  while 
before  I  perceived  that  there  were  outlandish  men 
in  the  house,  (but  I  did  well  understand  their 
speech,  for  1  have  been  a  traveller  myself)  now 
keuring  such  language,  in  such  a  tottering  coit age 
as  this  old  gentleman  dwelt  in,  1  clapt  mine  ear  to 
a  hole,  in  the  window,  and  there  heard  them  talk  as 
followeth.  This  old  Mr.  Questioning  asked  these 
Doubters  what  they  were,  whence  they  came,  atid 
what  was  their  business  in  these  parts  I  and  they 
told  him  to  all  these  questions,  yet  he  did  entertain 
them.  He  also  asked  what  numbers  there  were  of 
them,  and  they  told  him  teu  thousand  men.  He 
then  asked  them  why  they  made  no  mare  manly 
assaults  upon  Mansoul;  and  tlrey  toid  him;  so  he 
called  their  general  a  coward  for  his  marching  otf, 
when  he  should  have  fought  for  his  prince.  Fur- 
ther, this  old  Evilquestioning  wished,  and  I  heard 
him  wish,  Would  that  all  the  ten  thousand  Doubt- 
ers were  now  in  Mansoul,  and  himself  on  the  head 
of  them.  He  bid  them  also  take  need  and  lie  qui- 
et, for  if  they  were  taken  they  must  die,  ai though 
they  had  heads  of  gold." 

Then  said  the   court;   Mr.  Evilques- 
tfouiug.,   here   is    now  another   witness    Tim  court* 
24 


378  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

against  you,  and  his  testimony  is  full :  1.  He  swears, 
that  you  did  receive  these  men  into  your  house, 
and  that  you  did  nourish  them  there,  though  you 
knew  that  they  were  Diaboiians,  and  the  King's  en- 
emu  s.  2.  fie  swears,  that  you  did  wish  ten  thou, 
sand  of  them  in  Mansoul.  3.  He  swears,  that  you 
did  give  th^m  advice  to  he  quiet  and  close,  lest 
they  were  taken  by  the  King's  servants.  All  which 
manifesteth  that  thou  art  a  Dinbolian ;  hut  hadst 
thou  been  a  friend  to  the  King,  thou  wouidst  have 
apprehended  them. 

Then  said  Evilquestioning,  "  To  the 
His  plea.  first  of  these  I  answer,  the  men  that 
came  into  my  house  were  stangers,  and 
I  took  them  in,  and  is  it  now  become  a  crime  in 
Mansoul,  for  a  man  to  entertain  strangers  ?  That 
I  did  also  nourish  them  is  true,  and  why  should  my 
eharity  be  blamed.  As  for  the  reason  why  I  wish- 
ed ten  thousand  of  them  in  Mansoul,  I  never  told 
it  to  the  witnesses  nor  to  themselves.  I  might 
wish  them  to  be  taken,  and  so  my  wish  might  mean 
well  to  Mansoul  for  aught  that  any  one  yet  knows. 
I  did  also  bid  them  take  heed  that  they  fell  not  into 
the  captain's  hands,  but  that  might  be,  because  I 
am  unwilling  that  any  man  should  be  slain,  and 
not  because  I  would  have  the  King's  enemies  es- 
cape." 

My  lord  Mayor  then  replied,  That  though  it  was 
a  virtue  to  entertain  strangers,  yet  it  was  treason  to 
entertain  the  King's  enemies.  And  for  what  else 
thou  hast  said,  thou  dost  but  by  words  labour  to 
evade  and  defer  the  execution  of  judgment.  But 
could  there  be  no  more  proved  against  thee,  but 
that  thou  art  a  Diabolian,  thou  must  for  that  die  the 
death  by  the  law  ;  but  to  be  a  deeriver,  a  nourish- 
es a  countenance^  and  a  harhourer  of  others  of 
them,  yea,  of  outlandish  Diaboiians:  yea,  of  them 
that  came  from  afar,  on  purpose  to  cut  off  and  de- 
stroy our  Mansoul ;  this  must  not  be  borae. 

Then    said    Evilquestioning,    "  1    see   h©w    the 
game  will  go.     I  must  die  for  my  name, 
His  conclu-  and  for  my  charily."     And  so  he  then 
sion.  held  his  peace. 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  27^ 

Then  they  called  the  outlandish  Doubters  to  the 
bar,  and   the   first  of  them  that  was  arraigned,  was 
the  Election-doubter ;  so  his   indictment  was  read, 
and  because   he   was  an   outlandish   man,  the  sub- 
stance of  it   was  told  by  an  interpreter, 
to    wit,    "  That   he  was   there  charged  The     Ekc- 
with    being  an  enemy  to  Emmanuel  the  ticn-d'tvht- 
Prinee,  a  hater  of  the  town  of  Tv!ar;sou!,  crtriecL 
and  an  opposer  of  her  most  wholesome 
doctrhie." 

Then  Hie  judge  asked  Mm  if  he  would  plead  ? 
But  he  said  only  this,  That  he  confes- 
sed that  he  was  an  Election-doubter,  His  pica. 
and  that  was  the  religion  that  he  had 
ever  been  brought  up  in.  And  said  moreover,  if  I 
must  die  for  my  religion,  I  trow,  1  shall  die  a  mar- 
tyr, and  so  I  care  the  less. 

Then  it  was  replied,  to  question  Election  is  to 
overthrow  a  great  doctrine  of  the  gos- 
pel ;  to  wit,  the  omniseiency,  and  flow-  The  court 
tr,  and  will  of  God,  to  take  away  the 
liberty  of  God  with  his  creature,  to  stumble  the 
faith  of  the  town  of  Mansoul,  and  to  make  salvation 
to  depend  upon  works  and  not  upon  grace.  It  also 
belied  the  world,  and  disquieted  the  minds  of  the 
men  of  Mansoul ;  therefore,  by  the  best  of  laws,  he 
must  die. 

Then  was  the   Vocation-doubter  called,  and  set 
to  the  'oar;  and  his  indictment,  for  sub- 
stance,  was    the   same   with   the  other,  The    VocOr 
only  lie  was    particularly   charged   with  tien-daubt- 
denying  the  calling  of  Mans  'd.  cr  tried. 

The  judffe   asked    him  also,  what  he 
had  to  say  for  himself  ? 

So  he  replied,  "  That  he  never  believed  tfiat 
there  was  any  such  tiling  as  a  distinct  and  powerful 
call  of  God  to  Mansoul,  otherwise  than  by,  the  gen- 
eral voice  of  the  word  ;  nor  by  that  neither ;  other- 
wise than  as  it  exhorted  them  to  forbear  evil,  and 
to  do  that  which  is  good,  and  in  so  doing,  a  prom- 
ise of  happiness  is  annexed. 

Then  said  the  judge,  Thou  art  a  Diabolian,  and 


S&t  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

have  denied  a  great  part  of  one  of  the  most  experi- 
mental truths  of  the  Prince  of  the  town  of  Mnn- 
>ou! ;  for  he  has  called,  and  she  has  heard  a  most 
distinct  and  powerful  call  of  her  Emmanuel,  by 
which  she  has  been  quickened,  awakened,  and  pos- 
sessed with  heavenly  grace,  to  desire  to  have  com- 
munion with  her  Prince,  to  serve  him,  and  to  do  hrs 
will,  and  to  look  for  her  happiness,  merely  of  hi* 
good  pleasure.  And  for  thine  abhorrence  of  this 
§ood  doctrine,  thou  must  die  the  death. 

Then  the  Grace-doubter  was  called 
The  Grace-  and  his  indictment  was  read,  and  he  re<- 
dchbtcr  plied  thereto,  "  That  though  he  was  of 
tried.  the  land  of  Doubting,  his  father  was  the' 

offspring  of  a  Pharisee,  and  lived  ia 
good  fashion  among  his  neighbours,  and  that  he 
taught  them  to  believe  it,  and  believe  it  I  do,  anfl 
will,  that  Mansoeil  shall  never  be  saved  freely  bj 
grace." 

Then  said  the  judge,  Why,  the  law 
Rom.  Q.  of  the  Prince  is  plain:  1.  Negatively, 
Eph.  2.         "  Not  of  works  :"     2.  Positively,  "  By 

grace  you  are  saved."  And  thy  reli- 
gion se^lcfh 4n  and  upon  the  works  of  the  flesh  ;  for 
the  works  of  the  law  are  the  works  of  the  flesh. 
Besides,  in  saying  (as  thou  hast  done)  thou  hast  rob- 
bed God  of  his  glory,  and  given  it  to  a  sinful  man; 
thou  hast  robbed  Christ  of  the  necessity  of  his  un- 
dertaking, and  sufficiency  thereof,  and  hast  giveH 
both  these  to  the  works  of  ihe  flesh  ;  thou  hast  des- 
pised the  work  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  and  hast  magni- 
fied the  will  of  the  flesh,  and  of  the  legal  mind. 
Thou  art  a  Diabolian,  the  son  of  a  Diaholian ;  and 
for  thy  Diabolian  principles  thou  must  die. 

The  court  then  having  proceeded  thus  far  with 
them,  sent  out  the  jury,  who  forthwith  brought 
them  in  guilty  of  death.  Then  stood  up  the  Re- 
corder, and  addressed  himself  to  the  prisoners; 
You,  the  prisoners  at   the  bar,  you  have  been  here 

indicted,  and  proved  guilty  of  high 
Their  sen-  crimes  against  Emmanuel  our  Prince, 
tence         to  and  against  the  welfare  of  the  fa  mom 


THE  HOLT  WAfe.  2$1 

fown  of  Mansoul ;  crimes  for  which  you  die. 
must  be  put  to  death;  and  die  ye  accordingly. 

So  they  were  sentenced  to  the  death  of  the  cross ; 
the  place  assigned  them  for  execution, 
was  that  where  Diaboius  drew  up  his  The  places 
Inst  army  against  Mansoul ;  save  only  of  their 
that  old  Evilquestioning  was  hanged  at  death  as* 
the  top  of  Badstreet ;  just  over  against  signed. 
his  own  door. 

When    the   town    of  Mansoul    had   thus   far  rid 
themselves   of  their  enemies,  and  of  the  troubles 
of    their   peace,   in    the    next  place  a  strict  com- 
mandment was  given  out,  that  yet   my 
lord  Willbewill   should,  with  Diligence  A    new 
liis  man,  search  for,  and  do  his  best,  to  warrant 
apprehend  what   town   Diaholians  were  granted  out 
yet  alive  in   Mansoul.     The  names  of  against  the' 
several  of  them  were,  Mr.  Fooling,  Mr,  children  of 
Letgooilsiip,   Mr.    Slavishfear,  Mr.  No-  Evilques- 
love,  Mr.  Mistrust  Mr.   Flesh,  and  Mr.  ticking 
Sloth.     It   was    also    commanded,  that  with 
he  should  apprehend  Mr.  Evilques!  ion-  others, 
ing's  children  that  he  left  behind  him, 
and   that   they  should  demolish   his   house.      The 
children  that  he  left  behind   him  were  these,  Mr. 
Doubt,  and  he  was  the  eldest  son  ;  the  next  to  him 
was    Legal    Life,    Unbelief,    Wrong  Thoughts  of 
Christ,  Clip-promise,  Carnal-sense,   Live   by  Feel- 
ing and  Self-love.     All  these  he  had   by   one   wife* 
and  her  name  was  No-hope,  she  was  the  kinswoman 
of  old   Incredulity,  for  he  was  her  uncle,  aud  when 
her    father   old    Dark    was   dead,   he  took  her  and 
brought  her  u;>,  and  when  she  was  marriageable,  h£ 
gave  her  to  this  old  Evilquestioning  to  wife. 

Now  the  lord  Willbewill  did  put  into  execution1 
his  commission  with  great  Diligence  h:s 
man.     He   took   Fooling  in  the  streets,  WiUbewill 
and  hanged   him   up  in  Wantwit-alley,  puts       his 
over  against  his  own  house.  This  Fool-  warranting 
ing  was  he  that  would  have  had  the  town  to  execution 
of  Mansoul  deliver  up  captain  Credence  Fooling 
into  the   hands   of  Diaboius,  provided  taker** 
24  * 


282  THE  HOLY  WAR. 

Letgoodslip  that  then  he  would  have  withdrawn  his 
taken.  force  out  of  the  town.     He  also  took 

Mr.  Letgoodslip  one  day  as  he  was  busy 
in  the  rnirket,  and  executed  him  according  to  law; 
now  here  was  an  honest  poor  man  in  Mansoul,  and 
his  name  was  Mr.  Meditation,  one  of  no  great  nc- 
count  in  the  days  of  apostacy,  but  now  of  repute 
With  the  best  of  the  town.  T!  is  man  therefore  they 
w  rj  willing  to  prefer;  now  Mr.  Letgoodslip  had  a 
g-eat  deal  of  wealth  heretofore  in  Ma  isoul,  and  at 
E  ;manu<  1  s  coming  it  was  sequestered  to  the  use  of 
the  Prince  ;  this  therefore  was  given  to  Mr.  Medi- 
tation, to  improve  for  the  common  good,  and  after 
him  to  his  son,  Mr.  Thinkful  ;  this  Thinkful  he  had 
by  Mrs.  Piety  his  wife,  and  she  was  the  daughter  of 
Mr.  Recorder. 

After    this    my    lord  apprehended   Clip-promise; 
p..  now  because  he  was  a  notorious  villain 

.  4  \Pj  for  by  his  doings   much    of  the  Kingf* 

ue  taken.  .   J         .        J  ..       ,.       .  te. 

coin  was  abused,  therefore  he  was  made 

a  public  example.  He  wa3  arraigned  and  judged  to 
be  first  set  on  the  pillory,  then  to  be  whipt  by  all 
the  children  and  servants  in  Mansoul,  and  then  to 
be  hanged  till  he  was  dead.  Some  may  wonder  at 
the  severity  of  this  man's  punishment,  but  those  that 
are  honest  traders  in  Mansoul,  are  sensible  of  the 
great  abuse  that  one  clipper  of  promises,  in  little 
time,  may  do  to  the  town  of  Mansoul.  And  truly 
my  judgment  is,  that  all  those  of  his  name  and  life 
should  be  served  as  he. 

He  also  apprehended  Carnal-sense  and 
Carnal'Scnsc  put  him  in  hold  ;  but  how  it  came  about 
taken.  I  cannot  tell,  but  he  broke  the  prison 

and  made  his  escape  ;  yea,  and  the  bold  villain  will 
not  yet  quit  the  town,  but  lurks  in  the  Diaboiian 
dens  at  days,  and  haunts,  like  a  ghost,  honest  men's 
houses  at  nights.  Wherefore  there  was  a  proclama- 
tion set  up  in  the  market-place  in  Mansoul,  signify- 
ing, that  whoever  could  discover  Carnal-sense,  and 
apprehend  him  and  slay  him,  should  be  admitted  dai- 
ly to  the  Prince's  table,  and  should  be  made  keeper 
of  the  treasure  of  Mansoul.  Many  therefore  did  bend 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  283 

themselves  to  do  this  thing,   hut   take  him  and  slay 
him  they  could  not,  though  often  he  was  discovered. 

But  my  lord  took  Mr.  Wrong  Thoughts 
of  Christ,  and  put  him  \n  prison,  and  he  Wrong 
died  there,   though   it  was   long  first,  for  Thoughts 
he  died  of  a  lingering  consumption.  of  Christ 

Self-love   was  also  taken,  and  commit-  taken* 
ted  to  custody  ;  but  there  were  many  that  S-lf-love 
were   allied    to    him   iti    Mansoul,  so  his  taken. 
judgment  was  deferred,  but   at   last.  Mr.  Self-denial 
stood  up,  and  said,  if  such  villains  as  these  may  he 
winked  at  in  Mausoul,  I  will  lay  down  my  commis- 
sion,    He   also  took   him  from  the  crowd,  and  had 
him  among  his  soldiers,  and  there   he    was  brained. 
But  some   in    Mausoul  muttered  at  it,  though  none 
durst  speak  plainly,  because   Emmanuel  was  in  the 
town.     But  this   brave   act   of  captaiq   Self-denial 
came  to  the  Prince's  ears,  so  lie  sent  for 
him,  and  made  him   a   lord  in  Mansoul.  Captain 
My  lord  Willbewill   also  obtained  great  Self  denial 
commendations  of  Emmanuel,  for  what  made     a 
he  had  done  for  the  town  of  Mansoul.       lord. 

Then  my  lord  Self-denial  took  courage;  and  set 
to   the   pursuing  of  the   Diabolians,  with   my  lord 
Willbewill ;  and  they   took  Livebyfeel- 
ing,  and   Legal-life,   and    put    them   in  Uvcbyfeel- 
hold   till   they  died.     .But  Mr.  Unbelief  big  and  Lc- 
was  a  nimble-Jack,  him  they  could  nev-  gal-life  ta- 
er  lay  hold  of,  though  they  attempted  it  ken. 
often.     He  therefore,  and  some  few  more  ©f  the  sub- 
tlest of  the  Diaholian  tribe,  did  yet  remain  in  Man- 
soul, to  the  time  that  Mansoul  left  olf  to  dwell  any 
more  in  the  kingdom   of  Universe.     But  they  kept 
them  to  their  dens   and    holes  ;   if  one   of  them  did 
appear  or  happen  to  be  seen  in  any  of  the  streets  of 
the  town  of  Mansoul,  the  whole  town  would  be  up 
in'arms  after  them,  yea,  the   very   chil- 
dren   in    Mansoul    would  cry    out  after  The   peace 
them  as   after   a  thief,  and  would  wish  of  Mansoul 
that    they    might   stone  them   to  death  she    minds 
with  stones.     And  now  did  Mansoul  ar-  her  trade. 
rive  to  some  good  degree  of  peace  and  Isa.S29  17* 


184  ?%m  holy  wah. 

Phil.  3,  20.  quiet;  her  Prince  also  did  abide  withifc 
Prov.  33.  her  borders ;  her  captains  also,  and  her 
soldiers  did  their  duties,  and  Mansoul 
minded  her  trade  that  she  had  with  the  country  that 
was  afar  off;  also  she  was  busy  in  her  manufacture. 
When  the  town  of  Mansoul  had  thus  far  rid 
themselves  of  so  many  of  their  enemies,  and  the 
troublers  of  their  peace,  <he  Prince  sent  to  them* 
and  appointed  a  day  wherein  he  would,  at  tne  mar- 
ket-place, meet  the  whole  people,  and  (here  give 
them  in  charge  concerning  some  further  nutters, 
that,  if  observed,  would  iem\  to  their  further  safety 
and  comfort,  and  to  the  condemnation  and  destruc- 
tion of  their  homebred  Diaboiians.  So  the  day  ap- 
pointed was  come,  and  the  townsmen  met  together; 
Emmanuel  also  came  down  in  his  chariot,  and  all 
his  captains  in  their  state  attending  bun  on  the  right 
hand,  and  on  the  left.  Then  was  CTyes  made  for 
silence,  and  after  some  mutual  carriages  of  love,  the 
Prince  began  and  thus  proceeded. 

'k  You,  my  Mansoul,  and  the  beloved  of  mine 
heart,  many  and  great  are  the  privileges  that,  i  have 
bestowed  upon  you;  I  have  singled  you 
EmmanueP 's  out  from  others,  and  have  chosen  you 
speech  io  to  myself,  not  for  your  worthiness,  but 
Mansoul.  for  miue  own  sake.  1  have  also  redeem- 
ed you,  not  only  from  the  dread  of  my 
Father's  law,  but  from  the  hand  of  Diabolus.  Thua 
have  1  done  because  i  loved  you,  and  because  I 
have  set.  my  heart  upon  you,  to  do  you  good.  1  have 
also,  that  all  filings  that  might  hinder  the  way  to 
the  pleasures  of  paradise  rmght  be  taken  out  of  the 
-way,  laid  down  for  thee,  for  thy  soai,  a  plenary  sat- 
isfaction, and  have  bought  thee  to  myself:  a  price 
not  of  corruptible  things,  as  silver  a n*)  gold;  but  a 
price  of  blood,  mine  own  blood  which  1  have  freely 
split  upon  the  ground  to  make  thee  mine.  So  I 
have  reconciled  thee,  O  my  Mansoul  to  my  Father* 
and  intrusted  thee  in  the  mansion  houses  that  are 
my  Father's  in  the  royal  city  ;  where  things  are.  O 
my  Mansoul,  that  eye  hath  not  seen,  nor  hath  e*£ 
tared,  into  the  heart  of  man  to  conceive 


THE  HOLY  WAR.  28* 

"  Besides,  O  my  Mansoul,  thou  sees*  what  I  have 
done,  and  hew  I  have  taken  thee  out  of  the  hands 
ef  thine  enemies;  unto  whom  thou  hadst  deeply  re- 
volted from  my  Father,  and  by  whom  thou  wast 
content  to  he  possessed,  and  also  to  he  destroyed. 
I  came  to  ihee  first  by  ray  law,  then  by  my  gospel, 
to  awaken  thee,  and  to  shew  thee  my  glory.  And 
thou  knowest  what  thou  wast,  w  hat  thou  snidst,  what 
thou  didst,  and  how  many  times  thou  rebelled  against 
my  Father  and  me ;  vet  I  left  thee  not,  as,thou  seesfc 
this  day,  hut  came  to  thee,  have  borne  thy  manners, 
have  waited  upon  thee,  and  after  all  accepted  of 
ihee,  even  of  my  mere  grace  and  favour  ;  and  would 
not  suffer  thee  to  he  lost,  as  thou  most  willingly 
wouldest  have  been.  I  also  compassed  thee  about,, 
and  afflicted  thee  on  every  side,  that  I  might  make 
thee  weary  of  thy  ways,  and  bring  down  thy  heart 
with  molestation,  to  a  willingness  to  close  with  thy 
good  and  happiness.  And  when  I  had  gotten  a  com- 
pleteconquestover  thee,  I  turned  it  to  thy  advantage. 

"  Thou  seest  also,  what  a  company  of  ray  Fa- 
ther's host  1  have  lodged  within  thy  borders:  cap* 
tains  and  riders,  soldiers,  and  men  of  war;  engines-, 
and  excellent  devices  to  subdue  and  bring  down  thy 
foes;  thou  knowest  my  meaning,  O  Mansoul.  And 
ihey  are  my  servants,  and  thine  too,  Mansoul. 
Yea,  my  design  of  possessing  of  thee  with  them,  and 
the  natural  tendency  of  each  of  them  is  to  defend* 
Jjurge,  strengthen,  and  sweeten  thee  for  myself,  O 
Mansoul;  and  to  make  thee  meet  for  my  Father's 
presence,  blessing  and  glory ;  for  thou,  my  Man- 
soul,  art  created  to  be  prepared  unto  tht-se. 

"  Thou  seest,  moreover,  my  Mansoul,  how  I  have 
passed  by  thy  backslidiugs,  and  have  healed  thee, 
indeed  I  was  angry  with  thee,  but  I  have  tnrned 
mine  anger  away  from  thee,  because  I  loved  thee 
still,  and  mine  anger  and  mine  indignation  is  ceased 
in  the  destruction  of  thine  enemies,  O  Muisoul.  Nor 
did  thy  goodness  fetch  rue  again  unto  \hee,  after 
that  J,  for  thy  transgressions  have  hid  my  face,  and 
withdrawn  my  presence  from  thee.  The  way  of 
backsliding  was  thine,  but  the  way  and  means  of  thy 


236     '  THE  HOLY  WAR, 

recovery  was  mijie.  I  inven ted  the  means  of  thy 
return  ;  it  was  1  th*t  made  an  hedge  and  a  wall,  when 
thou  was  beginning  to  turn  to  1  li i ncrs  in  which  I  de- 
lighted not.  It  was  3  that  made  thy  sweet,  hitter; 
thy  day,  night,  thy  smooth  way,  thorny,  and  that  al- 
so confounded  all  thai  sought  thy  destruction.  It  was 
I  that  sent  Mr.  Godly  fear  to  work  in  Mansoul.  It 
was  I  that  stirred  up  thy  Conscience  and  Under- 
standing, thy  Will  and  thy  Affections,  after  thy 
great  and  woful  decay.  It  was  1  that  put  life  in  thee, 

0  Mansoul,  to  seek  me,  that  thou  mightest  find  me, 
and  in  thy  finding,  find  thine  own  wealth,  happiness 
and  salvation.  It  was  I  that  fetched,  the  second  time, 
the  Diabolians  out  of  Mansoul.  It  was  1  that  over- 
came them,  and  that  destroyed  them  before  thy  face. 

"  And   now,  my   Mansoul,  I  am  returned  to  thee 

in  peace,  and  thy  transgressions  against  me  are  as  if 

they  had  not  been.     Now  shall  it  be  with  thee  as  la 

former  days,  but  I  will  do  better  for  thee 

1  Ch.  29,  30  than  at  the  beginning-     For  yet  a  little 

while,  O  my  Mansoul,  even  after  a  few 
more  times  are  gone  over  thy  head,  1  will  (he  not 
troubled  at  what  I  say)  take  down  this  famous  town 
of  Mansoul,  stick  and  stone  to  the  ground  ;  and  I 
will  carry  the  stones  thereof,  and  the  timber  there- 
of, and  the  wails  thereof,  the  dust  thereof,  and  the 
inhabitants  thereof,  into  mine  own  country,  even 
into  the  kingdom  of  my  Father;  and  1  will  there 
set  it  up  in  such  strength  and  glory,  as  it  never  did 
see  in  the  kingdom  where  now  it  is  placed.  1  will 
even  there  set  it  up  k>?  ivy  Father's  habitation,  for, 
for  that  purpose  it  was  at  first  erected,  in  the  king* 
dom  of  Universe  ;  and  there  I  will  make  it  a  spec- 
tacle of  vender,  a  monument  of  mercy,  and  the  ad- 
mirer of  its  own  mercy.  There  shall  the  natives  of 
Mansoul  see  ail  that,  of  which  ihi^y  have  seen  noth- 
ing here,  there  shall  they  be  equal  to  those  unto 
whom  they  have  feen  inferior  here.  And  there 
shait  thou,  O  my  Mansoul,  have  such  communion 
with  rae,  with  my  Father,  and  with  ye>ur  Lord  Sec- 
retary, c;s  is  not  possible  here  to  be  enjoyed,  nor  even 
oould  I  ( ,  sboultlst  thou  live  in  Universe  the  space  of 
a  thousand  years. 


THE  KOLY  WAK.  237 

"  And  there,  O  my  Mansoul,  thou  shall  be  afraid 
mf  murders  no  more ;  of  Diaboliaus  and  iheir  threats 
no  more.  There  sr*.u!  be  no  more  plots,  nor  contri- 
vances, nor  designs  against  thee,  O  my  Mansoul. 
There  thou  shalt  no  more  hear  the  evil  ridings,  or 
the  noise  of  the  Diabolian  drum.,  There  thou  shalt 
not  see  the  Diabolian  standard  hearers,  not  yet  be- 
hold Diaholus'  standard.  No  Diabolian  mount  shall 
be  cast  up  against  thee  there,  nor  shall  {here  the  Di- 
abolian standard  he  set  up  to  make  thee  afraid. 
There  thou  shalt  not  need  captains,  ensigns, soldiers 
and  men  of  war.  There  thou  shall  meet  with  no 
sorrow  nor  grief;  nor  shall  it  be  possible  that  any* 
Diabolian  should  again  (for  ever)  be  able  to  creep 
into  thy  skirts,  burrow  in  thy  walls  or  be  seen  again 
within  thy  borders,  all  the  days  of  eternity.  L'fe 
ibaH  there  last  longer,  than  here  you  are  able  to  de- 
sire it  should  ;  and  yet  s^  M  always  be  sweet  aud 
new,  nor  shall  any  impediment  attend  it  for  ever. 

"  There,  O  Mansoul,  thou  shalt  meet  with  many 
of  those  that  have  been  like  thee,  and  that  have 
been  partakers  of  thy  sorrows;  even  such  as  I  have 
chosen  aud  redeemed,  and  s^t  apart,  as  thou,  for  my 
Father's  court  and  city-royai.  All  they  will  be 
glad  in  thee,  and  thou,  when  thou  seest  them,  shall 
be  glad  in  thine  heart. 

M  There  are  things,  O  Mansoul,  even  things  of 
thy  Father's  providing  and  mine,  that  never  were 
seen  since  the  beginning  of  the  world  and  they  are 
laid  up  with  my  Father,  and  sealed  up  among  his 
treasures  for  thee,  till  thou  shalt  come  thither  to 
enjoy  them.  I  told  you  before,  that  1  would  re- 
move my  Mansoul  and  set  it  up  elsewhere;  and 
where  I  will  set  it,  there  are  those  that  love  thee> 
and  those  that  rejoice  in  thee  now;  but  how  much 
more;  when  they  shall  see  thee  to  hon- 
our. My  Father  will  then  send  th^m  for  Ps.  64.  17. 
you  to  fetch  you ;  and  their  bosoms  are 
chariots  to  put  you  in.  And  you,  O  Mansoul,  shall 
ride  upon  the  wings  ot  the  wind.  They  will  come  to 
convoy,  conduct,  and  bring  you  to  tnat,  when  your 
eyes  see  no  more,  that  will  be  your  desired  heaven, 


288  THE  HOLY  YY\K. 

"  And  (bus,  O  my  Mansoul,  I  have  shewed  tmtt 
thee  what  shall  he  done  to  tfe'e.e  hereafter  if  thou 
canst  hear,  if  thou  canst  understand  ;  and  now  I  will 
tell  thee  what  at  present  must  be  thy  duty  and  prac- 
tice, until  I  shall  come  and  fetch  thee  to  myself,  ac- 
cording as  is  related  in  the  scriptures  of  truth. 

't-Firftj' I  charge  thee,  that  thou  dost  hereafter 
keep  more  white  and  clean  the  liveries  which  I 
gave  thee,  before  my  1st  withdrawing  from  thee  ; 
do  it,  I  say,  for  th';s  will  S>e  thy  wisdom.  They  are 
in  themselves  fine  linen,  but  thou  must  keep  them 
white  and  clean.  This  will  be  your  wisdom,  your 
honour,  and  will  be  greatly  for  my  glory.  When 
your  garments  are  white,  the  world  will  count  you 
mine.  Also,  when  your  garments  are  white,  then 
I  am  delighted  in  your  ways  ;  for  then  your  goings 
to  and  fro  will  be  like  a  flash  of  lightning,  that 
those  that  are  present  must  take  notice  of,  also 
their  eyes  will  be  made  to  dazzle  there  it.  Deck 
thyself,  therefore  according  to  my  bidding,  and 
make  thyself,  ?>y  my  law,  straight  steps  for  thy  feet, 
so  shall  thy  King  greatly  desire  thy  beauty,  for  he 
is  thy  Lord,  and  worship  thou  him. 

*  Now  that  thou  may  est  keep  them  as  I  bid  thee, 
I  have,  as  before  I  did  tell    thee,    provided  for  thee 
an  open   fountain  to  wash  thy   garments  in.     Look 
therefore  that   thou  wash   often  in  my  fountain,  and 
go  not  in  defiled  garments  ;  for  as  it  is  to  my  dis- 
honour, and   my   disgrace,   so  it  will  be  to  thy  di** 
eomfort,  when  you  shall  walk   in   filihy 
garments.     Let  not  therefore   my   gar-  Zcch.  3.  \ 
ments,   (your   garments)    the  garments  2. 
that  I   gave  thee,  be  denied   or  spotted  J  tide  v.  2$. 
by  the  flesh.     Keep    thy    garments    al- 
ways white,  and  let  thy  head  lack  no  ointment. 

"  My  Mansoul,  1  have  oft  times  delivered  thefc 
from  the  designs,  [dots,  attempts,  and  conspiracies 
of  Diaholus,  and  for  all  this,  I  ask  thee  nothing,  but 
that  you  render  not  to  me  evil  for  my  good,  but 
that  you  bear  in  mind  my  love,  and  the  continue 
tion  cf  my  kindness  to  my  beloved  Mansoul.  so  as 
to  provoke  thee  to  walk  in  thy  measure,  according 


'£HE  HOLY  WAR.  289 

to  the  benefit  bestowed  on  thee.  Of  old,  the  sacri- 
fices were  bound  with  cords  to  the  horns  of  the 
golden  altar.  Consider  what  is  said  to  thee,  0  my 
blessed  Mansoui. 

"Omy  Mansoui,  I  have  lived,  I  have  died,  I 
live  and  will  die  no  more  for  thee.  I  live  that  thou 
imyest  not  die.  Because  I  live  thou  shalt  live  al- 
so. I  reconciled  thee  to  my  Father  by  the  blood 
of  my  cross,  and  being  reconciled  thou  shalt  live 
through  me.  I  will  pray  for  thee,  I  will  fight  for 
thee,  I  will  yet  do  thee  good. 

"  Nothing  can  hurt  thee  but  sin  ;  nothing  can 
grieve  me  but  sin ;  nothing  can  make  thee  base 
before  thy  foes  but  sin :  take  heed  of  sin,  my  Man,- 
soul. 

"  And  dost  thou  know  why  I,  at  first,  and  do 
still  suffer  Diabolians  to  dwell  in  thy  walls,  O  Man- 
soul  ?  It  is  to  keep  thee  waking,  to  try  thy  love,  to 
make  thee  watchful,  and  to  cause  thee  yet  to  prize 
my  noble  captains,  their  soldiers,  aud  my  mercy. 

"  It  is  also,  that  yet  thou  may  est  be  made  to  re*» 
member  what  a  deplorable  condition  thou  once  wast 
in,  I  mean  when  not  some,  but  all  did  dwell,  not  \n. 
the  walls,  but  in  thy  castle,  and  in  thy  strong  hole}, 
O  Mansoui. 

"  O  my  Mansoui,  should  I  slay  all  them  within, 
many  there  be  without  that  would  bring  thee  into 
bondage  ;  for  were  all  these  within  cut  off,  those 
without  would  find  thee  sleeping,  and  then,  as  in  a 
m  men!,  they  would  swallow  up  my  Mansoui.  I 
therefore  left  tiierri  in  thee,  not  to  do  tliee  hurt,  (the 
which  they  yet  will,  if  thou  hearken  to  them,  and 
serve  ihern)  but  to  do  thee  good,  the  which  they 
must,  if  thou  watch  against  them. 

"  Know  therefore,  that  whatever  they  shall  tempt 
thee  to,  my  design  is,  that  they  should  not  drive 
thee  further  off,  but  nearer  to  my  Father,  to  learn 
the  war,  to  m>ke  petitioning  desirable  to  thee,  and 
to  make  thee  little  in  tlnne  own  eyes.  Hearken 
diligently  to  this,  my  MaLsoui. 

"Shew  me  then  thy  iove,  my  Mansoui,  and  let 
aot  those   that  are  without  thv  walls  take  thy  af- 
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290  THE  FOT.Y  WAR. 

(V.ctions  oil  from  him,  that  hath  redeemed  thy  soul. 
Yea,  let  the  sight  of  a  Diahoiian  heighten  thy  love 
to  me.  I  oame  once,  and  twice,  and  thrice  to  save 
from  the  poison  of  those  arrows  that  would 
have  wrought  thy  death  ;  stand  tor  me,  thy  friend, 
my  ftfansoul,  against  the  DiaboSians,  and  I  will 
stand  for  thee  before  my  Father,  and  all  his  court. 
Love  me  against  temptations,  and  I  will  love  thee> 
notwithstanding  thine  infirmities; 

"  0  my  Mansoul,  remetaher  what  my  captains, 
my  soldiers,  and  mine  ensigns  have  done  for  thee. 
They  have  fought  for  thee,  they  have  suffered  by 
thee,  they  have  borne  much  at  thy  hands  to  do  thee 
good,  O  Mansoul.  Hadst  thou  not  had  them  to  help 
thee,  Diabolus  had  certainly  made  a  hand  of  thee. 
Nourish  them  therefore,  my  Mansoul.  When  thou 
dost  well,  they  will  be  well ;  when  thou  dost  ill, 
they  will  be  ill,  and  siek,  and  weak.  Make  not 
thou  my  captains  sick,  O  Mansoul  ;  for  if  they  be 
sick,  thou  canst  not  be  well ;  if  they  be  weak,  thou 
eanst  not  be  strong;  if  they  be  faint,  thou  canst  not 
he  stout  and  valiant  for  thy  King,  O  Mansoul.  Nor 
must  thou  think  always  to  live  by  sense,  thou  must 
3ive  upon  my  word.  Thou  must  believe,  O  my 
Mansoul,  when  lam  from  thee,  that  yet  I  love  thee 
and  bear  thee  upon  mine  heart  for  ever. 

"  Remember  therefore,  O  my  Mansoul,  that  thou 
art  beloved  of  me,  as  I  have  therefore  taught  thee 
to  watch,  to  fight,  to  pray,  and  to  make  war  against 
my  foes ;  so  now  I  command  thee  to  believe  that 
my  love. is  coustant  to  thee.  O  my  Mansoul,  how 
have  I  set  my  heart,  my  love,  upon  thee.  Watch. 
"  Behold,  I  lay  none  other  burden  upon  thee  than 
<]  what  thou  hast  already,  hold  fast  till  I  come." 


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